Bathybembix washingtoniana

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BathybembixPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Seguenzioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Seguenzioidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Seguenzioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Bathybembix washingtoniana on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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- Oligocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Bathybembix washingtoniana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bathybembix washingtoniana and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Bathybembix washingtoniana and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
98 taxa- Anechinocardium lorenzanum3 sites
- Conchocele bisecta2 sites
- Crepidula ungana2 sites
- Cyclocardia castor2 sites
- Liracassis rex2 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) twinensis2 sites
- Macrocallista cathcartensis2 sites
- Marginella shepardae2 sites
- Neverita (Neverita) washingtonensis2 sites
- Nucula (Acila) pugetensis2 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis2 sites
- Opalia (Opalia) bravinderi2 sites
- Pitar2 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) blakeleyensis2 sites
- Priscofusus stewarti2 sites
- Solemya (Acharax) dalli2 sites
- Turritella diversilineata blakeleyensis2 sites
- Acila (Acila) gettysburgensis1 site
- Acrilla (Undiscala) olympicensis1 site
- Acteon1 site
- Aforia clallamensis1 site
- Alcespina americana1 site
- Argobuccinum1 site
- Balanophyllia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Bathybembix washingtoniana, 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
2 references- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington2
- Paleontology of the Marine Tertiary formations of Oregon and Washington1
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 Bathybembix washingtoniana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Bathybembix washingtoniana 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 itBathybembix through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1909)