Chlamys mediacostata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChlamysPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Chlamys
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Chlamys
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Chlamys
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Chlamys mediacostata on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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 mediacostata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Chlamys mediacostata and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Chlamys mediacostata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Anodontia edentuloides1 site
- Architectonica nobilis1 site
- Argopecten mendenhalli1 site
- Chama frondosa1 site
- Chlamys corteziana1 site
- Cyathodonta undulata1 site
- Dendostrea vespertina1 site
- Euvola keepi1 site
- Malea ringens1 site
- Miltha xantusi1 site
- Oliva spicata1 site
- Persististrombus granulatus1 site
- Turritella imperialis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Chlamys mediacostata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- 1940 E.W. Scripps cruise to the Gulf of California. Part II - Megascopic paleontology and marine stratigraphy2
- Tertiary Marine Pelycypods of California and Baja California: Pectinidae to Propeamussidae1
- Paleontology of Coyote Mountain, Imperial County, California1
Each of the 4 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 Chlamys mediacostata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Chlamys mediacostata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itChlamys through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hanna 1926)