Glycymeris (Glycymeris) gigantea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Glycymeris (Glycymeris)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Glycymeris
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Glycymeris
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Glycymeris
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Glycymerididae
Time the record covers
At least 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
8 occurrences of Glycymeris (Glycymeris) gigantea on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
8 occurrences- Pliocene75%
- Pleistocene25%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Glycymeris (Glycymeris) gigantea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Glycymeris (Glycymeris) gigantea and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Glycymeris (Glycymeris) gigantea and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
165 taxa- Codakia distinguenda5 sites
- Euvola keepi5 sites
- Anodontia edentuloides4 sites
- Arca4 sites
- Arcinella californica4 sites
- Argopecten4 sites
- Dendostrea vespertina4 sites
- Dosinia semiobliterata4 sites
- Lucinisca nuttalli4 sites
- Pycnodonte heermanni4 sites
- Strophocardia megastropha4 sites
- Anadara reinharti3 sites
- Arca pacifica3 sites
- Barbatia3 sites
- Divalinga eburnea3 sites
- Kalolophus antillarum3 sites
- Miltha xantusi3 sites
- Oliva spicata3 sites
- Polinices uber3 sites
- Spondylus3 sites
- Tucetona (Bellaxinaea) multicostata3 sites
- Agaronia2 sites
- Atys2 sites
- Chama2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Glycymeris (Glycymeris) gigantea, 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
5 references- Pliocene Invertebrates From the Travertine Point Outcrop of the Imperial Formation, Imperial County, California4
- Upper Pleistocene Rocky Shores and Intertidal Biotas at Playa La Palmita (Baja California Sur,Mexico)1
- Paleoecology and paleoenvironments of the Pleistocene deposits of Bahia la Choya (Gulf of California, Sonora, Mexico)1
- 1940 E.W. Scripps cruise to the Gulf of California. Part II - Megascopic paleontology and marine stratigraphy1
- Paleontology of Coyote Mountain, Imperial County, California1
Each of the 8 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. 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.
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No picture of Glycymeris (Glycymeris) gigantea 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 Glycymeris (Glycymeris) gigantea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glycymeris (Glycymeris) gigantea 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 itGlycymeris (Glycymeris) through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reeve 1843)