Glycymeris cookei
No picture of Glycymeris cookei 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 cookei, 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.
4 occurrences of Glycymeris cookei 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
4 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Glycymeris cookei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Glycymeris cookei and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Glycymeris cookei and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Ampullina2 sites
- Turritella2 sites
- ? Sabellaridae indet.1 site
- Aequipecten suwaneensis1 site
- Agatrix1 site
- Amauropsis1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
- Apiocyphraea sp.1 site
- Archaeolithothamnium1 site
- Architectonica fungina1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brissus1 site
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta1 site
- Cassis sulcifera1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Cheilostomata1 site
- Chione (Chionopsis) bainbridgensis1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Chlamys (Lyropecten) duncanensis1 site
- Clavidrupa1 site
- Clypeaster cotteaui1 site
- Conus1 site
- Conus sauridens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Glycymeris cookei, 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
3 references- A contribution to the invertebrate fauna of the Oligocene beds of Flint, River2
- Molluscan biostratigraphy of the lower River Bend Formation at Martin Marietta Quarry, New Bern, North Carolina1
- Paleoecology and paleogeography of an extensive rhodolith facies from the Lower Oligocene of south Georgia and north Florida1
Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Glycymeris cookei 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 cookei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glycymeris cookei 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.
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. Dall 1916