Lucinoma

Lucinoma is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Codakiinae of the family Lucinidae.

Lucinoma

Marie HENNION · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CodakiinaePBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 113 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 492 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 492 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 492 occurrencesEocene — about 10 of 492 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 85 of 492 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 232 of 492 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 80 of 492 occurrencesPleistocene — about 73 of 492 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–33 Mya — about 10 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 15 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 42 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 49 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 52 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 73 occurrences12–8.3 Mya — about 52 occurrences8.3–4.1 Mya — about 60 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 126 occurrences113.2 Mya11.7 ka124 Mya0 Mya

492 occurrences of Lucinoma on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

492 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

157 formations

Temblor — 35.95°N, 120.25°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.22°WTemblor — 36.34°N, 120.36°WTemblor — 36.37°N, 120.29°WTemblor — 35.50°N, 119.78°WTemblor — 35.88°N, 120.10°WTemblor — 35.42°N, 119.85°WTemblor — 35.40°N, 119.81°WTemblor — 35.47°N, 119.91°WVaqueros — 34.04°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 33.54°N, 117.78°WVaqueros — 33.68°N, 117.76°WVaqueros — 33.55°N, 117.82°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 118.83°WVaqueros — 34.76°N, 120.05°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 119.03°WVaqueros — 34.07°N, 119.66°WVaqueros — 34.04°N, 118.88°WVaqueros — 34.38°N, 118.84°WVaqueros — 34.42°N, 119.27°WVaqueros — 34.53°N, 120.31°WVaqueros — 35.27°N, 120.60°WVaqueros — 35.64°N, 120.93°WVaqueros — 35.31°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 35.25°N, 120.06°WVaqueros — 35.82°N, 121.06°WVaqueros — 35.77°N, 120.93°WVaqueros — 36.18°N, 121.31°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WBerada — 51.10°N, 5.80°EPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.47°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.55°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.52°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.83°N, 120.38°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WTowsley — 34.34°N, 118.54°WKubota — 37.50°N, 140.00°ECalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WCalvert — 38.53°N, 76.52°WCalvert — 38.42°N, 76.62°WCalvert — 38.17°N, 76.80°WCalvert — 38.07°N, 76.92°WCalvert — 38.67°N, 76.53°WCalvert — 37.66°N, 77.15°WIhungia — 40.13°S, 176.55°EIhungia — 40.30°S, 176.62°EIhungia — 40.03°S, 176.37°EIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.22°EKanomatazawa — 36.66°N, 140.10°EClallam — 48.23°N, 124.14°WClallam — 48.20°N, 122.11°WClallam — 48.26°N, 124.25°WClallam — 48.27°N, 122.25°WAstoria — 46.19°N, 123.83°WAstoria — 44.72°N, 124.06°WAstoria — 43.40°N, 124.28°WLillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°EWaita — 33.83°N, 130.50°EPleito — 34.99°N, 119.19°WFels — 48.50°N, 15.76°EFels — 48.51°N, 15.74°ESan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WJacalitos — 36.07°N, 120.45°WJacalitos — 36.08°N, 120.48°WJacalitos — 36.03°N, 120.39°WJacalitos — 36.14°N, 120.64°WMakah — 48.30°N, 124.42°WMakah — 48.32°N, 124.47°WBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WBlakeley — 48.16°N, 123.95°WBlakeley — 47.95°N, 122.07°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChoptank — 38.45°N, 76.46°WCoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°ECoralline Crag — 52.12°N, 1.55°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.35°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ELincoln Creek — 46.49°N, 123.80°WLincoln Creek — 47.27°N, 123.48°W

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The named rock units Lucinoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 133 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 87 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lucinoma and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lucinoma and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,371 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 349 sites for Lucinoma, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

152 references

Each of the 492 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. 140 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 content2

Picture of Lucinoma

Credit
Marie HENNION
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
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Specimen
Lucinoma filosa · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:306143

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCodakiinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1901)