Macoma (Heteromacoma)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MacomaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Tellinidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Tellinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.
21 occurrences of Macoma (Heteromacoma) on record. 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
21 occurrences- Eocene52%
- Oligocene5%
- Pleistocene38%
- Holocene5%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Macoma (Heteromacoma) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
645 taxa- Mactromeris eugenensis11 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana10 sites
- Pitar (Pitar) dalli10 sites
- Bruclarkia8 sites
- Crepidula ungana8 sites
- Tellina8 sites
- Dentalium (Fissidentalium) laneensis7 sites
- Littorina (Littorina) scutulata7 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) inquinata7 sites
- Solena (Eosolen) eugenensis7 sites
- Acmaea mitra6 sites
- Alia carinata6 sites
- Amphissa versicolor6 sites
- Atrimitra idae6 sites
- Chlorostoma brunnea6 sites
- Chlorostoma funebrale6 sites
- Crepidula adunca6 sites
- Diodora aspera6 sites
- Ficus modesta6 sites
- Glans carpenteri6 sites
- Lottia scabra6 sites
- Macrocallista6 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis6 sites
- Parvicardium eugenense6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Macoma (Heteromacoma), 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
7 references- The Oligocene marine molluscan fauna of the Eugene Formation in Oregon11
- Pleistocene invertebrates from Punta Baja, Baja California, Mexico3
- Late Pleistocene megafauna of Cayucos, California, and its zoogeographic significance3
- The discovery of the right whale skull in the Kisagata shell bed1
- Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California1
- Fauna of the Sooke Formation Vancouver Island1
- Oil and gas yielding formations of California1
Each of the 21 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 content0
No picture of Macoma (Heteromacoma) 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 Macoma (Heteromacoma), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Macoma (Heteromacoma) was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMacoma through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Habe 1952)