Gemma magna majorina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Gemma magnaPBDB
- 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 4.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Gemma magna majorina 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
5 occurrences- Pliocene60%
- Pleistocene40%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Gemma magna majorina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gemma magna majorina and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Gemma magna majorina and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
215 taxa- Carolinapecten eboreus5 sites
- Crassinella lunulata5 sites
- Abra aequalis4 sites
- Astarte concentrica4 sites
- Mercenaria campechiensis rileyi4 sites
- Plicatula gibbosa4 sites
- Astarte (Ashtarotha) undulata3 sites
- Bornia triangula3 sites
- Busycon3 sites
- Crassinella3 sites
- Ilyanassa sexdentata3 sites
- Parvilucina multistriata3 sites
- Pteromeris perplana3 sites
- Abra aequalis deltoidea2 sites
- Aesopus2 sites
- Astarte2 sites
- Astarte (Ashtarotha) concentrica conradi2 sites
- Barnea2 sites
- Caecum (Defolinia) flemingi2 sites
- Caryocorbula conradi2 sites
- Chione cribraria2 sites
- Corbicula2 sites
- Diodora redimicula virgilina2 sites
- Donax2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Gemma magna majorina, 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- Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina. Part 1. Pelecypoda4
- Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine1
Each of the 5 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 Gemma magna majorina 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 Gemma magna majorina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gemma magna majorina 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 itGemma magna through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gardner 1943