Angulus merus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AngulusPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Angulus
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Angulus
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Angulus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
3 occurrences of Angulus merus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
3 formations
- Bermont Formation1
- Mount Hope Formation1
- Falmouth Formation · Coastal Group1
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The named rock units Angulus merus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Angulus merus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Angulus merus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
290 taxa- Abra aequalis2 sites
- Acar domingensis2 sites
- Americardia media2 sites
- Anadara (Larkinia) transversa2 sites
- Angulus versicolor2 sites
- Anodontia alba2 sites
- Arcopagia fausta2 sites
- Arcopsis adamsi2 sites
- Argopecten gibbus2 sites
- Brachidontes exustus2 sites
- Cadulus2 sites
- Cardiomya costellata2 sites
- Caryocorbula caribaea2 sites
- Chione cancellata2 sites
- Clathrolucina costata2 sites
- Crassostrea virginica2 sites
- Ctena orbiculata2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Diodora cayenensis2 sites
- Eulima bifasciata2 sites
- Gouldia cerina2 sites
- Laevicardium serratum2 sites
- Lamarcka imbricata2 sites
- Lindapecten muscosus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Angulus merus, 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
3 references- The benthic mollusk faunas of two contrasting reef paleosubenvironments: Falmouth Formation (late Pleistocene, last interglacial), Jamaica1
- Mollusca of the "Glades" unit in southern Florida: Part I Introduction and observations1
- Two collections of Pleistocene fossils from the Isthmus of Panama1
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 Angulus merus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAngulus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Say 1834)