Glycymeris arctata
No picture of Glycymeris arctata 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 arctata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlycymerisPBDB
- 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 most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
25 occurrences of Glycymeris arctata on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
25 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
- Byram Formation · Vicksburg Group16
- Mint Spring Formation7
- Glendon Formation · Vicksburg Group1
- Byram Marl Formation1
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The named rock units Glycymeris arctata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Glycymeris arctata and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Glycymeris arctata and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
282 taxa- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) mississippiensis9 sites
- Corbula engonata9 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) diversum9 sites
- Nucula vicksburgensis9 sites
- Callista8 sites
- Dentalium8 sites
- Ervilia8 sites
- Pitar8 sites
- Pteria argentea8 sites
- Varicorbula laqueata8 sites
- Agaronia mississippiensis7 sites
- Astarte menthifontis7 sites
- Crenella fenestra7 sites
- Donax funerata7 sites
- Latirus7 sites
- Lirophora (Lirophora) victoria7 sites
- Lucina (Parvilucina) posteocurta7 sites
- Panopea oblongata7 sites
- Semele7 sites
- Tiza7 sites
- Verticordia7 sites
- Yoldia serica7 sites
- Agnocardia glebosum6 sites
- Atrina argentea6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Glycymeris arctata, 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
4 references- Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi13
- Testing for patterns of faunal persistence in the early Oligocene Byram Formation of Mississippi9
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area2
- Observations on the Eocene formations, and descriptions of one hundred and five new fossils from that period, from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi; with an appendix1
Each of the 25 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Glycymeris arctata 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 arctata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGlycymeris through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1848)