Mercenaria prodroma
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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 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
8 occurrences of Mercenaria prodroma 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
8 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
- Oak Grove Formation · Alum Bluff Group5
- Shoal River Formation · Alum Bluff Group3
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The named rock units Mercenaria prodroma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mercenaria prodroma and its relatives
MioceneWhere Mercenaria prodroma and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
148 taxa- Crassatella densus5 sites
- Costaglycymeris drymanos4 sites
- Macrocallista maculata4 sites
- Natica judsoni4 sites
- Parvilucina4 sites
- Acteocina3 sites
- Anadara (Diluvarca) santarosana3 sites
- Architectonica nobilis3 sites
- Calyptraea centralis3 sites
- Cancellaria3 sites
- Cerastoderma3 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula)3 sites
- Dinocardium taphrium3 sites
- Lirophora3 sites
- Nassarius (Uzita)3 sites
- Pegophysema santarosana3 sites
- Spisula (Hemimactra)3 sites
- Varicorbula disparilis3 sites
- Acteon hamadryados2 sites
- Anadara2 sites
- Anomia2 sites
- Chlamys2 sites
- Circulus2 sites
- Crassinella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Mercenaria prodroma, 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
2 references- The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida6
- Mollusca: Shoal River Formation (Middle Miocene2
Each of the 8 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
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No picture of Mercenaria prodroma 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 prodroma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mercenaria prodroma was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gardner 1947)