Macoma viticola
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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 most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Macoma viticola on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
15 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Scripps Formation · La Jolla Group6
- Tejon Formation4
- Mission Valley Formation · Poway Group3
- Ardath Formation · La Jolla Group2
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The named rock units Macoma viticola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Macoma viticola and its relatives
EoceneWhere Macoma viticola and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
208 taxa- Caryocorbula parilis7 sites
- Crassatella uvasana7 sites
- Pachecoa hornii7 sites
- Tejonia moragai7 sites
- Tellina (Angulus) castacana7 sites
- Ficopsis remondii6 sites
- Gari (Gobraeus) hornii6 sites
- Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia) domenginica6 sites
- Pleurofusia fresnoensis6 sites
- Pseudoperissolax blakei6 sites
- Rimella supraplicata6 sites
- Bittium cliffensis5 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymeris) rosecanyonensis5 sites
- Macrocallista tecolotensis5 sites
- Mactromeris bisculpturata5 sites
- Phalium (Semicassis) tuberculiformis5 sites
- Schedocardia brewerii5 sites
- Turritella uvasana neopleura5 sites
- Conus hornii4 sites
- Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana4 sites
- Nekewis io4 sites
- Pitar uvasana4 sites
- Pitar uvasanus uvasanus4 sites
- Tellina tehachapi4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Macoma viticola, 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- Eocene molluscan stages and their correlation, San Diego area, California10
- Fauna and stratigraphic relations of the Tejon Eocene at the type locality in Kern County, California3
- Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Eocene Tejon Formation, western Tehachapi and San Emigdio mountains, California1
- Paleoecology of a protected biotope from the Eocene Mission Valley Formation, San Diego County, California1
Each of the 15 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 viticola 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 viticola, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Macoma viticola 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Anderson and Hanna 1925