Cumingia californica

Cumingia californica

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
California semelePBDB
Sits inside
CumingiaPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Cumingia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Cumingia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cumingia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 59 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 59 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 56 of 59 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 59 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.6–4.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.3–1.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.0–775 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 25 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

59 occurrences of Cumingia californica 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

59 occurrences

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

9 formations

Unnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.84°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.86°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WTimms Point Silt — 33.71°N, 118.27°WQuaternary terrace — 33.76°N, 118.35°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°W

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The named rock units Cumingia californica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cumingia californica and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cumingia californica and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,044 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Cumingia californica, 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

20 references

Each of the 59 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. 8 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Cumingia californica

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Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Cumingia californica 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 itCumingia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1837)