Amussium lompocensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmusiumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Amusium
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Amusium
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Amusium
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Amussium lompocensis 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
7 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Amussium lompocensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Amussium lompocensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Amussium lompocensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
125 taxa- Lyropecten crassicardo3 sites
- Amussiopecten vanvlecki2 sites
- Balanus tintinnabulum2 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) richthofeni2 sites
- Chondrichthyes2 sites
- Conopeum barbarensis2 sites
- Crenomytilus expansus2 sites
- Eucidaris thouarsii2 sites
- Gemelliporella2 sites
- Glycymeris2 sites
- Osteichthyes2 sites
- Palaeophycus2 sites
- Trophon (Austrotrophon) kernensis2 sites
- Trophon (Forreria) bartoni2 sites
- Turritella ocoyana2 sites
- Turritella temblorensis2 sites
- Vaquerosella merriami2 sites
- Anodontia1 site
- Anomia vaquerosensis1 site
- Antillophos woodringi1 site
- Baggina1 site
- Balanus gregarius1 site
- Batillaria1 site
- Bolivina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Amussium lompocensis, 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- Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Miocene Saddleback Valley Limestone, Orange County, Southern California2
- Tertiary and Quaternary pectens of California2
- Stratigraphy, paleontology, and geology of the Central Santa Cruz Mountains, California Coast Ranges1
- Sirenian evolution in the North Pacific Ocean1
- A Neogene section northeastern San Clemente Island, California1
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Amussium lompocensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Amussium lompocensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amussium lompocensis 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 itAmusium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Arnold 1906)