Glycymeris mississippiensis
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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 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.
9 occurrences of Glycymeris mississippiensis 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
9 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
2 formations
- Flint River Formation6
- Byram Formation · Vicksburg Group3
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The named rock units Glycymeris mississippiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Glycymeris mississippiensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Glycymeris mississippiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
136 taxa- Ampullina2 sites
- Anatipopecten anatipes2 sites
- Cassis2 sites
- Cerithium2 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) bainbridgensis2 sites
- Conus sauridens2 sites
- Abra (Abra)1 site
- Aclis1 site
- Acroperna inflata1 site
- Acteocina1 site
- Acteon1 site
- Agaronia mississippiensis1 site
- Alaba1 site
- Aporrhais1 site
- Arcoperna inflata1 site
- Astarte menthifontis1 site
- Astarte triangulata1 site
- Atrina argentea1 site
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) cuculloides1 site
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) lima1 site
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) mississippiensis1 site
- Bathytoma1 site
- Bittium1 site
- Bornia tallahalaensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Glycymeris mississippiensis, 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, River6
- Testing for patterns of faunal persistence in the early Oligocene Byram Formation of Mississippi2
- Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi1
Each of the 9 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
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No picture of Glycymeris mississippiensis 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 mississippiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glycymeris mississippiensis 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 OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1848)