Glycymeris idonea

Glycymeris idonea

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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 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 83 occurrencesPaleocene — about 29 of 83 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 54 of 83 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 83 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 6 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 6 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 10 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 10 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 10 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61.66 Mya41.03 Mya66.6 Mya33.3 Mya

83 occurrences of Glycymeris idonea 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

83 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

13 formations

Moodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.90°N, 90.19°WMoodys Branch — 31.86°N, 88.70°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WMoodys Branch — 32.73°N, 90.46°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.83°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 32.08°N, 88.22°WTuscahoma — 31.33°N, 85.58°WTuscahoma — 31.85°N, 87.95°WTuscahoma — 31.85°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WClayton — 31.83°N, 86.62°WClayton — 31.90°N, 86.88°WClayton — 31.90°N, 87.07°WClayton — 31.99°N, 87.29°WClayton — 32.12°N, 87.26°WClayton — 31.71°N, 85.61°WClayton — 37.18°N, 89.07°WNanjemoy — 37.52°N, 76.79°WNanjemoy — 38.40°N, 76.99°WNanjemoy — 38.42°N, 77.41°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.58°N, 86.74°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.35°N, 86.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.52°WAquia — 38.82°N, 76.75°WAquia — 38.90°N, 76.56°WAquia — 38.92°N, 76.68°WAquia — 38.43°N, 77.38°WNaheola — 31.99°N, 87.29°WNaheola — 31.90°N, 87.35°WNanafalia — 31.65°N, 86.70°WNanafalia — 31.58°N, 85.77°WMcBean — 33.50°N, 80.89°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 29.95°N, 97.14°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.60°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°W

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The named rock units Glycymeris idonea 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 idonea and its relatives

Eocene

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

Found in the same rock

888 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Glycymeris idonea, 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

16 references

Each of the 83 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. 4 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 idonea

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
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 itGlycymeris through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1833)