Eumarcia (Eumarcia)

Arturo · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- EumarciaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 1.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Eumarcia (Eumarcia) on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
2 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 Eumarcia (Eumarcia) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eumarcia (Eumarcia) and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Eumarcia (Eumarcia) and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Cominella (Cominella)2 sites
- Crepidula2 sites
- Ostrea chilensis2 sites
- Penion2 sites
- Zegalerus2 sites
- Alcithoe (Alcithoe)1 site
- Amalda (Baryspira)1 site
- Amphibola aff. crenata1 site
- Austrovenus1 site
- Barytellina1 site
- Bassina1 site
- Bedeva1 site
- Chlamys (Phialopecten)1 site
- Cominella (Josepha)1 site
- Diloma1 site
- Diplodonta zelandica1 site
- Dosinia (Kereia) greyi1 site
- Dosinia (Raina)1 site
- Fellaster1 site
- Gari (Gari)1 site
- Glycymerita1 site
- Janthina typica1 site
- Laternula1 site
- Lutraria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Eumarcia (Eumarcia), 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
2 references- Eocene Mollusca from the vicinity of McCulloch's Bridge, Waihao River, South Canterbury, New Zealand: Paleoecology and systematics1
- Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand1
Each of the 2 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 content2

Picture of Eumarcia (Eumarcia)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Arturo
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Eumarcia fumigata · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:176290
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itEumarcia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Iredale 1925