Chama radians
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChamaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Chama
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Chama
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Chama
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
8 occurrences of Chama radians 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
8 occurrences- Pliocene38%
- Pleistocene63%
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
6 formations
- Ironshore Formation2
- Mare Formation2
- Abisinia Formation1
- Bermont Formation1
- Horry Clay Formation1
- Araya Formation1
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The named rock units Chama radians has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chama radians and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Chama radians and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
202 taxa- Abra aequalis1 site
- Acar domingensis1 site
- Acorylus gouldii1 site
- Aequipecten1 site
- Americardia media1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Anadara (Caloosarca) aequalitas1 site
- Anadara (Larkinia) transversa1 site
- Anadara (Rasia) lienosa1 site
- Anatina anatina1 site
- Angulus merus1 site
- Angulus versicolor1 site
- Anodontia alba1 site
- Anomalocardia1 site
- Anomalocardia brasiliana1 site
- Anomia simplex1 site
- Antalis antillarum1 site
- Anticlimax1 site
- Antigona1 site
- Antillipecten antillarum1 site
- Aorotrema1 site
- Arca zebra1 site
- Arcinella cornuta1 site
- Arcopagia fausta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Chama radians, 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- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel3
- Distribution of Bivalves and Gastropod in the Pleistocene Ironshore Formation, Grand Cayman, British West Indies2
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions1
- Mollusca of the "Glades" unit in southern Florida: Part I Introduction and observations1
- Late Cenozoic pelecypods from northern Venezuela1
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 content0
No picture of Chama radians was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Chama radians, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Chama radians 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 itChama through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1819)