Legumen ooides
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LegumenPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 56 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
25 occurrences of Legumen ooides on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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 occurrencesThese 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
8 formations
- Jalama Formation13
- Williams Formation2
- Moreno Formation · Great Valley Group1
- Panoche Formation · Great Valley Group1
- Pigeon Point Formation1
- Pleasants Sandstone Formation1
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The named rock units Legumen ooides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Legumen ooides and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Legumen ooides and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
204 taxa- Glycymerita veatchii13 sites
- Pterotrigonia evansana13 sites
- Corbicula astartoides12 sites
- Calva (Calva) varians11 sites
- Anomia jalama10 sites
- Ampullina concipio9 sites
- Biplica obliqua9 sites
- Terebralia juliana9 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) demessa7 sites
- Clisocolus dubius7 sites
- Euspira7 sites
- Popenoella hemphilli7 sites
- Trinacria cor7 sites
- Bullamirifica ainiktos6 sites
- Cymbophora ashburnerii6 sites
- Dentalium6 sites
- Etea occidentalis6 sites
- Calva (Egelicalva) bowersiana5 sites
- Cymbophora gabbiana5 sites
- Meekia (Mygallia) daileyi5 sites
- Pentzia hilgardi5 sites
- Volutoderma averillii5 sites
- Calva (Egelicalva) crassa4 sites
- Crassatella saulae4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Legumen ooides, 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
8 references- Mollusca from the upper Cretaceous Jalama Formation, Santa Barbara County, California12
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast4
- Upper Cretaceous formations and faunas of southern California3
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages2
- Checklist of Mesozoic macrofossil localities in the Santa Cruz Mountains and vicinity1
- Geology of Reef Ridge Coalinga district California1
- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington1
- The Rocks of the Sierra Nevada1
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. 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 Legumen ooides
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Legumen ooides 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 itLegumen through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)