Trigonarca furoni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrigonarcaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Glycymerididae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Glycymerididae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Glycymerididae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Glycymerididae
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 66 Mya.
3 occurrences of Trigonarca furoni on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Trigonarca furoni and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Trigonarca furoni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Agelasina plenodonta2 sites
- Baluchicardia2 sites
- Freiastarte2 sites
- Legumen ellipticum2 sites
- Mulinoides2 sites
- Profragum2 sites
- Subvenericardia2 sites
- Trigonarca angolensis2 sites
- Veniella2 sites
- Anofia aro1 site
- Aphrodina (Mesocallista) andersoni1 site
- Arca (Eonavicula) bogaerti1 site
- Astarte awensis1 site
- Austrocardium1 site
- Cryptorhytis1 site
- Dozyia lenticularis1 site
- Inoceramus (Cordiceramus)1 site
- Inoceramus (Endocostea)1 site
- Liopistha1 site
- Malletia1 site
- Mesocallista1 site
- Palaeomoera1 site
- Parmicorbula1 site
- Phacoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Trigonarca furoni, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages2
- Mollusques fossiles du Crétace de la Côte occidentale d'Afrique du Cameroun à l'Angola. II. - Lamellibranches1
Each of the 3 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Trigonarca furoni
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Trigonarca furoni was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTrigonarca through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dartevelle and Freneix 1957