Florimetis
No picture of Florimetis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Florimetis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TellinidaePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.
55 occurrences of Florimetis 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
55 occurrences- Miocene93%
- Pliocene4%
- Pleistocene4%
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
19 formations
- Quebradillas Limestone Formation10
- Choptank Formation · Chesapeake Group7
- Chipola Formation · Alum Bluff Group5
- St Marys Formation · Chesapeake Group4
- Springvale Formation4
- Pirabas Formation3
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The named rock units Florimetis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Florimetis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Florimetis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1,502 taxa- Calyptraea centralis10 sites
- Stewartia anodonta10 sites
- Bicorbula idonea9 sites
- Lirophora9 sites
- Macrocallista maculata9 sites
- Haminoea8 sites
- Turritella plebeia plebeia8 sites
- Anadara7 sites
- Busycon7 sites
- Crepidula plana7 sites
- Panopea7 sites
- Panopea goldfussii7 sites
- Astarte perplana6 sites
- Astarte thisphila6 sites
- Cancellaria6 sites
- Chesacardium laqueatum6 sites
- Chesapecten (Chesapecten) nefrens6 sites
- Clementia (Clementia) inoceriformis6 sites
- Isognomon (Hippochaeta)6 sites
- Mercenaria cuneata6 sites
- Naticarius canrena6 sites
- Turritella6 sites
- Urosalpinx subrusticus6 sites
- Anomia5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Florimetis, 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- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae).21
- Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America8
- The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida4
- Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad3
- Localidades fossiliferas da Formacao Pirabas (Mioceno Inferior)2
- Stratigraphy, invertebrate taphonomy and depositional history of the Miocene Calvert and Choptank Formations, Atlantic Coastal Plain2
- Geological and paleontological relations, with a review of earlier investigations2
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions1
- Mollusks from the Lower Miocene Pollack Farm Site, Kenty County, Delaware: A preliminary analysis1
- Molluscan fauna from the Tartaro Formation (Upper Miocene) of Central Luzon, Philippines1
- Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida1
- Miocene stratigraphy and paleontology of Southwestern Ecuador1
Each of the 55 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
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No picture of Florimetis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Florimetis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Florimetis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Olsson and Harbison 1953)