Mercenaria ducatelli
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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 most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Mercenaria ducatelli 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
3 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
2 formations
- Calvert Formation · Chesapeake Group2
- Kirkwood Formation1
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The named rock units Mercenaria ducatelli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mercenaria ducatelli and its relatives
MioceneWhere Mercenaria ducatelli and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
238 taxa- Euspira heros3 sites
- Glycymeris parilis3 sites
- Varicorbula elevata3 sites
- Astarte distans2 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta2 sites
- Chesacardium craticuloides2 sites
- Crassostrea virginica2 sites
- Crepidula fornicata2 sites
- Crepidula plana2 sites
- Crucibulum (Dispotaea) costata2 sites
- Diodora griscomi2 sites
- Ensis directus2 sites
- Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata2 sites
- Lunatia hemicrypta2 sites
- Mariacolpus plebeia2 sites
- Mitrella communis mediocris2 sites
- Modiolus ducatellii2 sites
- Murexiella cumberlandiana2 sites
- Mya producta2 sites
- Neverita duplicatus2 sites
- Nucula prunicola2 sites
- Nuculana liciata2 sites
- Pecten humphreysii woolmani2 sites
- Periploma peralta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mercenaria ducatelli, 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
3 references- Mollusks from the Lower Miocene Pollack Farm Site, Kenty County, Delaware: A preliminary analysis1
- Stratigraphy, invertebrate taphonomy and depositional history of the Miocene Calvert and Choptank Formations, Atlantic Coastal Plain1
- Miocene invertebrate fauna of New Jersey1
Each of the 3 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 Mercenaria ducatelli 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 Mercenaria ducatelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mercenaria ducatelli 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMercenaria through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1838)