Glycimeris major
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlycymerisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hiatellidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Hiatellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Hiatellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
43 occurrences of Glycimeris major on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
43 occurrencesThese 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
10 formations
- Martinez Formation11
- Santa Susana Formation9
- Meganos Formation8
- Silverado Formation6
- Lodo Formation2
- Tepetate Formation2
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The named rock units Glycimeris major 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.
Glycimeris major and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Glycimeris major and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
324 taxa- Glycymerita major35 sites
- Turritella infragranulata pachecoensis21 sites
- Cucullaea mathewsonii18 sites
- Polinices hornii15 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum14 sites
- Dentalium cooperi13 sites
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus13 sites
- Brachysphingus sinuatus11 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii11 sites
- Amauropsis martinezensis10 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis9 sites
- Tellina (Saulella) undulifera9 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis8 sites
- Flabellum cuneiforme8 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) major meganosensis8 sites
- Meretrix stantoni8 sites
- Pseudocardium meganosensis8 sites
- Pseudoperissolax tricarnatus8 sites
- Sycum mucronatum8 sites
- Urosyca caudata8 sites
- Brachysphingus mammilatus7 sites
- Crassatella unioides7 sites
- Miltha turneri7 sites
- Lacunaria striata6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Glycimeris major, 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
13 references- Unpublished taxonomic backbone for Eastern Pacific Invertebrate Communities of the Cenozoic (EPICC) Thematic Collections Network9
- The geology and paleontology of the type section of the Meganos Formation (lower Middle Eocene) of California8
- Geology and oil resources of a part of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California8
- Geology of the Northern Santa Ana Mountains, California5
- Geology of the coast ranges immediately north of the San Francisco Bay region, California4
- The Geology and Mineral Resources of Lane County, Oregon2
- Northeast Pacific Upper Cretaceous and Paleocene Glycymeridid Bivalves1
- Age, Correlation and Possible Tethyan Affinities of Mollusks from the Lodo Formation of Fresno County, California1
- Reconnaissance of the geology and oil possibilities of Baja California, Mexico1
- Geology of the eastern part of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California1
- Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California1
- The Martinez and Tejon Eocene and associated formations of the Santa Ana Mountains1
Each of the 43 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. 1 further reference is 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 Glycimeris major was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Glycimeris major, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glycimeris major was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itGlycymeris through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stanton 1896)