Amotapus arbolensis

Amotapus arbolensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmotapusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Myoidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Myoidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Myoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 15 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 8 of 8 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 8 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48.6 Mya33.4 Mya

8 occurrences of Amotapus arbolensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

8 occurrences

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

5 formations

Paracas — 13.91°S, 76.37°WParacas — 13.91°S, 76.34°WSaman — 4.84°S, 80.77°WSaman — 4.58°S, 81.28°WTalara — 4.52°S, 81.30°WParinas — 4.68°S, 81.33°WOtuma — 13.87°S, 76.27°W

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The named rock units Amotapus arbolensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Amotapus arbolensis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Amotapus arbolensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

103 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Amotapus arbolensis, 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

4 references

Each of the 8 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 Amotapus arbolensis

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iDigBio
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Amotapus arbolensis 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 itAmotapus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Woods 1922)