Moerella quasimacoma
No picture of Moerella quasimacoma 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 Moerella quasimacoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Tellina (Moerella)PBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Tellina (Moerella)
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Tellina (Moerella)
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellina (Moerella)
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
19 occurrences of Moerella quasimacoma 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
19 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Moerella quasimacoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Moerella quasimacoma and its relatives
EoceneWhere Moerella quasimacoma and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Exilia bentsonae13 sites
- Natica (Natica) weaveri13 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) clementensis13 sites
- Procerapex bentsonae13 sites
- Anechinocardium weaveri11 sites
- Scaphander impunctatus11 sites
- Echinophoria dalli10 sites
- Boreoscala9 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis9 sites
- Turricula keaseyensis9 sites
- Acamptogenotia (Acamptogenotia) tessellata8 sites
- Conomitra vernoniana8 sites
- Olequahia schencki8 sites
- Bathybembix columbiana7 sites
- Bonellitia (Admetula) tumida7 sites
- Bonellitia (Bonellitia) smithwickensis7 sites
- Ennucula keaseyensis7 sites
- Conus weltoni6 sites
- Epitonium (Boreoscala) condoni6 sites
- Acamptogenotia (Acamptogenotia) nodulosa5 sites
- Bruclarkia5 sites
- Epitonium (Boreoscala) keaseyense5 sites
- Parasyrinx delicata5 sites
- Ptychosyrinx facula5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Moerella quasimacoma, 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- Paleogene marine bivalves of the deep-water Keasey Formation in Oregon, Part III: The heteroconchs18
- A methane seep from the deep-marine, late Eocene Keasey Formation, Rock Creek, Columbia County, Oregon1
Each of the 19 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Moerella quasimacoma 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 Moerella quasimacoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Moerella quasimacoma 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 itTellina (Moerella) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hickman 2015