Glycymeris cainozoica

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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 least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Eocene — about 9 of 11 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesMiocene49–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41.03 Mya23.04 Mya48.7 Mya15.3 Mya

11 occurrences of Glycymeris cainozoica 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

11 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

4 formations

Merlinleigh Sandstone — 24.33°S, 115.19°EToolinna Limestone — 33.12°S, 124.02°ETortachilla Limestone — 34.92°S, 138.62°EGellibrand Marl — 37.77°S, 141.23°E

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The named rock units Glycymeris cainozoica 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.

Glycymeris cainozoica and its relatives

Eocene

Where Glycymeris cainozoica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Glycymeris cainozoica, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 11 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.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Glycymeris cainozoica 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 cainozoica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Glycymeris cainozoica 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 through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tenison Woods 1877)