Chlamys
Searched as Chlamys (Swiftopecten) cosibensis cosibensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Chlamys as the accepted name.
Chlamys is a genus of small scallops, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae. The name is taken from the Ancient Greek, χλαμΰς or Chlamys, a cloak worn by soldiers.
Wilson44691 · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChlamydiniPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 7.246 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Chlamys on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
10 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Chlamys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chlamys and its relatives
MioceneWhere Chlamys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
2,582 taxa- Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana52 sites
- Plagiostoma43 sites
- Serpula40 sites
- Pleuromya uniformis38 sites
- Ostrea34 sites
- Modiolus33 sites
- Dentalium32 sites
- Isognomon30 sites
- Turritella30 sites
- Panopea29 sites
- Radulopecten fibrosus27 sites
- Bryozoa26 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus26 sites
- Actinostreon gregarea25 sites
- Vertebrata24 sites
- Cucullaea23 sites
- Nucula23 sites
- Nuculana23 sites
- Pholadomya23 sites
- Venericardia23 sites
- Gastropoda22 sites
- Plicatula22 sites
- Protocardia22 sites
- Pseudomelania22 sites
The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,527 sites for Chlamys, and this reads 240 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
1 referenceEach of the 10 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 content3
Picture of Chlamys
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Wilson44691
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Chlamys islandica · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:163336
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChlamydini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Röding 1798)