Mercenaria campechiensis

Mercenaria campechiensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MercenariaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Mercenaria
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Mercenaria
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Mercenaria
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 6 of 103 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 33 of 103 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 56 of 103 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–12 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–4.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 9 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 14 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 38 occurrences13.82 Mya11.7 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

103 occurrences of Mercenaria campechiensis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

103 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

21 formations

Yorktown — 37.23°N, 76.96°WYorktown — 36.44°N, 77.10°WYorktown — 35.54°N, 77.67°WYorktown — 35.51°N, 77.62°WYorktown — 37.29°N, 77.25°WYorktown — 37.51°N, 77.21°WYorktown — 37.25°N, 76.50°WYorktown — 37.27°N, 76.57°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WYorktown — 37.15°N, 76.74°WYorktown — 35.15°N, 77.14°WWaccamaw — 34.23°N, 77.94°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.50°N, 79.11°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.29°N, 78.51°WWaccamaw — 33.97°N, 78.39°WWaccamaw — 33.63°N, 79.16°WDuplin — 35.00°N, 78.32°WDuplin — 34.62°N, 79.01°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WDuplin — 34.50°N, 79.11°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 34.78°N, 76.69°WPamlico — 35.00°N, 76.79°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.75°N, 81.39°WFort Thompson — 26.79°N, 81.30°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WAcredale — 36.73°N, 76.34°WTamiami — 26.89°N, 82.01°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WChoptank — 38.41°N, 76.48°WChoptank — 38.52°N, 76.51°WChoptank — 38.38°N, 76.38°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WMichoud — 30.05°N, 89.96°WCalvert — 38.63°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 38.47°N, 76.48°WNorfolk — 36.92°N, 76.49°WRaysor — 33.33°N, 80.15°WTalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WChowan River — 36.05°N, 76.73°WSt Mary's — 38.36°N, 76.39°WGardiners Clay — 40.98°N, 72.32°W

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The named rock units Mercenaria campechiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mercenaria campechiensis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Mercenaria campechiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,452 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Mercenaria campechiensis, 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

29 references

Each of the 103 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. 17 further references are not listed. 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 Mercenaria campechiensis

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Mercenaria campechiensis · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:223476

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 itMercenaria through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1791)