Cryptolucina megadyseides
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CryptolucinaPBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
4 occurrences of Cryptolucina megadyseides on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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 Cryptolucina megadyseides 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.
Cryptolucina megadyseides and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cryptolucina megadyseides and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Acharax1 site
- Bathymodiolus willapaensis1 site
- Callianassa1 site
- Elongatolucina elassodyseides1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Humptulipsia raui1 site
- Isorropodon humptulipsense1 site
- Maorithyas humptulipsensis1 site
- Thalassonerita eocenica1 site
- Thyasira (Conchocele) folgeri1 site
- Vesicomya1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cryptolucina megadyseides, 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- A new genus of cryptic lucinid? bivalve from Eocene cold seeps and turbidite-influenced mudstone, western Washington2
- Thyasirid bivalves from Cretaceous and Paleogene cold seeps1
- The Late Eocene ‘Whiskey Creek’ methane-seep deposit (western Washington State)1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cryptolucina megadyseides 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 Cryptolucina megadyseides, 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.
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What may have been alongside itCryptolucina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Saul et al. 1996