Macoma (Macoma) crassula

Macoma (Macoma) crassula

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Macoma (Macoma)PBDB
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 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.4–5.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.0–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–4.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.0–3.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.5–3.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11.63 Mya5.333 Mya16.5 Mya2.1 Mya

3 occurrences of Macoma (Macoma) crassula on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

3 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

3 formations

Enemtenskaya — 58.00°N, 158.00°EIl'inskaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°ELimimtevayamskaya — 58.97°N, 163.92°E

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The named rock units Macoma (Macoma) crassula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

115 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Macoma (Macoma) crassula, 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

1 reference

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Macoma (Macoma) crassula

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Macoma calcarea · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:71115

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Deshayes 1855)