Macoma brota

Macoma brota

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
heavy macomaPBDB
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 2.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 7 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 7 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 7 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.6–4.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.9–3.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.3–1.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.0–775 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.333 Mya2.58 Mya7.7 Mya0 Mya

7 occurrences of Macoma brota on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

7 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

5 formations

Careaga Sandstone — 34.84°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WLimimtevayamskaya — 58.97°N, 163.92°EUst'-Limimtevayamskaya — 58.97°N, 163.92°EFoxen Mudstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WPancho Rico — 36.06°N, 121.20°W

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The named rock units Macoma brota has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Macoma brota and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Macoma brota and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

150 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Macoma brota, 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

4 references

Each of the 7 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 Macoma brota

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Macoma brota 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 itMacoma through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1916)