Acharax johnsoni

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcharaxPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feeder, chemosymbioticPBDB, for Solemyidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Solemyidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Solemyidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Solemyidae
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.
17 occurrences of Acharax johnsoni on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
17 occurrences- Eocene6%
- Oligocene17%
- Miocene48%
- Pliocene24%
- Pleistocene6%
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.
Found in
15 formations
- Tamari Formation2
- Gakkhinskaya Formation1
- Mysa Ploskogo Formation1
- Tyushevskaya Formation1
- Ommayskaya Formation1
- Aokiyama Formation · Hota Group1
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The named rock units Acharax johnsoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Acharax johnsoni and its relatives
MioceneWhere Acharax johnsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
169 taxa- Conchocele bisecta5 sites
- Limatula3 sites
- Lucinoma acutilineata3 sites
- Megayoldia (Megayoldia) thraciaeformis3 sites
- Mytilus edulis3 sites
- Nuculana3 sites
- Yoldia (Yoldia)3 sites
- Acesta2 sites
- Acila2 sites
- Acila (Acila) kholmskensis2 sites
- Cardiomya2 sites
- Chlamys (Chlamys) gackhense2 sites
- Corbicula2 sites
- Crassatella2 sites
- Cyclocardia2 sites
- Delectopecten peckhami2 sites
- Fortipecten2 sites
- Fusitriton oregonensis2 sites
- Leionucula2 sites
- Limopsis2 sites
- Liocyma fluctuosa2 sites
- Macrocallista2 sites
- Malletia2 sites
- Megayoldia (Portlandella)2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Acharax johnsoni, 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
9 references- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.4
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of Sakhalin and Kurile Islands4
- Palaeoecology of Akebiconcha kawamurai (Bivalvia: Vesicomyidae) from the Pliocene Tamari Silt Formation in the Kakegawa area, central Japan2
- Pectinids from the Taga Group of the Joban Coalfield2
- Discovery of an Extensive Deep-Sea Fossil Serpulid Reef Associated with a Cold Seep, Santa Monica Basin, California1
- Occurrence of cetacean fossils on the banks of Kinugawa River in Shimo-Okamoto, Utsunomiya City1
- Miocene pinnipeds of the otariid subfamily Allodesminae in the North Pacific Ocean: Systematics and relationships1
- Early Miocene Calyptogena from the Aokiyama Formation, Hota Group, Boso Peninsula, Japan1
- Neogene Molluscan Fauna in Hokkaido : Part I. Description of the Asahi Fauna Associated with Mytilus tichanovitchi MAKIYAMA, from Ikushunbetsu District, Central Hokkaido1
Each of the 17 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Acharax johnsoni
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- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Acharax johnsoni was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
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What may have been alongside itAcharax through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1891)