Macoma (Macoma) incongrua

alexei1969 · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- 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 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.
14 occurrences of Macoma (Macoma) incongrua 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
14 occurrences- Miocene57%
- Pleistocene36%
- Holocene7%
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
5 formations
- Kubota Formation · Higashi-Tanakura Group7
- Anchor Formation2
- Kisagata shell bed Formation1
- Ishiizawa Formation1
- Toshima Sand Formation · Toyohashi Group1
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The named rock units Macoma (Macoma) incongrua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Macoma (Macoma) incongrua and its relatives
MioceneWhere Macoma (Macoma) incongrua and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
322 taxa- Anadara8 sites
- Glossaulax didyma6 sites
- Leukoma6 sites
- Lucinoma annulata6 sites
- Ostrea6 sites
- Nassarius5 sites
- Phos5 sites
- Anomia4 sites
- Cancellaria4 sites
- Cerithium4 sites
- Crepidula4 sites
- Dosinia japonica4 sites
- Laevicardium4 sites
- Mercenaria4 sites
- Panopea4 sites
- Turritella4 sites
- Acteocina culcitella3 sites
- Batillaria3 sites
- Caesia perpinguis3 sites
- Calyptraea fastigiata3 sites
- Dentalium3 sites
- Diplodonta3 sites
- Dosinia3 sites
- Fusitriton oregonensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Macoma (Macoma) incongrua, 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- The Shiobara-type Molluscan Fauna: An ecological analysis of fossil molluscs6
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of some marine Pleistocene deposits in northwest Los Angeles Basin, California2
- Discovery of Balaenoptera cf. borealis from the Middle Miocene in the Fukushima Prefecture1
- Early Pleistocene fossil Mollusca from the sea of Japan off Yamaguchi Prefecture1
- Age and characteristics of the so-called "Atsunai-Togeshita fauna" in Hokkaido1
- The discovery of the right whale skull in the Kisagata shell bed1
- Summary of the geology and paleontology of the Atsumi Peninsula, Aichi Prefecture, Japan1
- A Pleistocene molluscan fauna from near Goleta, Santa Barbara County, California1
Each of the 14 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 content2

Picture of Macoma (Macoma) incongrua
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- alexei1969
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Macoma calcarea · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:71115
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 (Macoma) through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Martens 1865)