Ameghinomya volckmanni

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmeghinomyaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
17 occurrences of Ameghinomya volckmanni on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
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The named rock units Ameghinomya volckmanni 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.
Ameghinomya volckmanni and its relatives
MioceneWhere Ameghinomya volckmanni and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Aturia cubaensis3 sites
- Ceratoscopelus2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Diogenichthys aguilerai2 sites
- Exilia alanbeui2 sites
- Rhynchoconger chiloensis2 sites
- Steindachneria svennielseni2 sites
- Achirus australis1 site
- Achirus chungkuz1 site
- Agonopsis cume1 site
- Ameghinomya meridionalis1 site
- Architectonica1 site
- Argentina1 site
- Asterosoma1 site
- Austrosipho subreflexa1 site
- Balaena1 site
- Bathybembix mcleani1 site
- Bregmaceros prosoponus1 site
- Bulla1 site
- Cancellaria medinae1 site
- Carapus1 site
- Chione1 site
- Chondrites1 site
- Citharichthys parvisulcus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Ameghinomya volckmanni, 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
5 references- Sistemática y filogenia del género Ameghinomya Ihering, 1907 (Bivalvia: Chioninae) del Cenozoico de Argentina y Chile11
- Molluscos bivalvos y gastrópodos del Mioceno marino de Isla Stokes, sur de Chile2
- El genero Cancellaria en el Mioceno de Chile con descripcion de cuatro especies nuevas (Gaastropoda: Cancellariidae)2
- Architectonicidae en la Formacion Navidad, Mioceno, Chile central. Parte 1. Heliacinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda)1
- Note sur la géologie et la paléontologie de la Patagonie1
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 Ameghinomya volckmanni
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ameghinomya volckmanni was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itAmeghinomya through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Philippi 1887