Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata

Glycymeris sagittata (Gabb, 1864), a relative of Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata — not Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata itself

Not Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata. This is Glycymeris sagittata (Gabb, 1864), a relative — both are Glycymerididae.

via GBIF · CC BY 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
GlycymeritaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Glycymerididae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Glycymerididae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Glycymerididae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Glycymerididae

Time the record covers

At least 7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 43 occurrencesEocene — about 43 of 43 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 43 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48.07 Mya41.03 Mya56.5 Mya33.4 Mya

43 occurrences of Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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 occurrences

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

16 formations

Juncal — 34.77°N, 119.16°WJuncal — 34.47°N, 119.02°WJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.72°WJuncal — 34.55°N, 118.71°WLlajas — 34.31°N, 118.67°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WLlajas — 34.23°N, 118.76°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCowlitz — 46.20°N, 123.02°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WCrescent — 47.31°N, 123.53°WCrescent — 47.31°N, 123.55°WManiobra — 33.63°N, 115.68°WRoseburg — 43.31°N, 123.12°WRoseburg — 43.01°N, 123.91°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.93°WTejon — 34.92°N, 118.85°WBateque — 26.75°N, 113.00°WBushnell Rock — 43.27°N, 123.15°WSantiago — 33.76°N, 117.77°WAvenal — 35.88°N, 120.10°WMarkley — 38.47°N, 122.04°WLodo — 36.36°N, 120.44°WScripps — 32.83°N, 117.12°WMission Valley — 32.91°N, 117.09°WMatilija — 34.54°N, 118.75°W

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The named rock units Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata and its relatives

Eocene

Where Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

536 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata, 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

19 references

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. 7 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

Media content1

Picture of Glycymeris sagittata (Gabb, 1864)

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGlycymerita through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)