Mactromeris sectoris
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MactromerisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Mactridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Mactridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Mactridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Mactromeris sectoris on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
16 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Mactromeris sectoris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mactromeris sectoris and its relatives
MioceneWhere Mactromeris sectoris and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
233 taxa- Lucinoma acutilineata9 sites
- Balanus7 sites
- Calyptraea filosa7 sites
- Turritella inezana7 sites
- Anomia vaquerosensis5 sites
- Cancellaria (Euclia) dalliana5 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) temblorensis5 sites
- Crassostrea vaquerosensis5 sites
- Dallocardia vaquerosense5 sites
- Diplodonta orbella5 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana5 sites
- Macoma nasuta5 sites
- Macrochlamis magnolia5 sites
- Mactromeris albaria5 sites
- Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis5 sites
- Pacipecten andersoni5 sites
- Polinices (Neverita) reclusianus andersoni5 sites
- Anadara osmonti4 sites
- Bittium topangensis4 sites
- Calyptraea costellata4 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) richthofeni4 sites
- Crepidula diminutiva4 sites
- Dallocardia woodringi4 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinella) merriami4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Mactromeris sectoris, 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
5 references- The Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene of California. I. Paleontology7
- Stratigraphy and paleontology of the marine Neogene formations of the Coalinga region, California6
- New mollusks from the Round Mountain Silt (Temblor) Miocene of California1
- A microfauna from the Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene, Simi Valley, Ventura County, California1
- Neocene record in the Temblor Basin, California, and Neocene deposits of the San Juan District, San Luis Obispo County1
Each of the 16 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 content0
No picture of Mactromeris sectoris 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 Mactromeris sectoris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mactromeris sectoris 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 itMactromeris through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Anderson and Martin 1914)