Mya (Arenomya) arenaria

Mya (Arenomya) arenaria

LJ Moore-McClelland · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
soft-shelled clamPBDB
Sits inside
Mya (Arenomya)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Myidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Myidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Myidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 112 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 112 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 112 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 112 occurrencesPleistocene — about 73 of 112 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 12 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 15 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 72 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

112 occurrences of Mya (Arenomya) arenaria 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

112 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

34 formations

Presumpscot — 44.80°N, 68.78°WPresumpscot — 43.64°N, 70.26°WPresumpscot — 43.31°N, 69.78°WPresumpscot — 44.13°N, 68.87°WPresumpscot — 44.10°N, 70.21°WPresumpscot — 43.35°N, 70.50°WPresumpscot — 43.91°N, 69.97°WPresumpscot — 44.55°N, 69.63°WPresumpscot — 43.84°N, 70.10°WPresumpscot — 43.89°N, 70.28°WPresumpscot — 44.23°N, 69.78°WNorwich Crag — 52.58°N, 1.38°EPamlico — 38.55°N, 75.08°WPamlico — 35.14°N, 76.77°WPamlico — 32.64°N, 80.01°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WChamplain Clay — 47.55°N, 52.67°WChamplain Clay — 45.18°N, 73.30°WChamplain Clay — 45.85°N, 71.18°WRed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°EWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.29°N, 78.51°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WTalbot — 38.15°N, 76.43°WChamplain Clay — 43.68°N, 70.37°WChamplain Clay — 44.54°N, 73.34°WSaxicava Clay — 49.58°N, 57.93°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.86°WPancho Rico — 35.90°N, 120.84°WSan Joaquin — 36.27°N, 120.28°WSan Joaquin — 35.97°N, 120.18°WGubik — 71.39°N, 156.48°WMallenskaya — 62.08°N, 175.33°ESakuragicho — 35.45°N, 139.64°ETogawa — 40.43°N, 141.33°EAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WKurasiyskaya — 47.05°N, 142.06°ESertunayskaya — 49.11°N, 142.90°EVerkhneduyskaya — 49.11°N, 142.90°ESaanich — 47.58°N, 122.42°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WCalvert — 38.64°N, 76.52°WSt Mary's — 37.56°N, 76.78°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°W

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The named rock units Mya (Arenomya) arenaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 44 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mya (Arenomya) arenaria and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Mya (Arenomya) arenaria and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

975 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Mya (Arenomya) arenaria, 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

35 references

Each of the 112 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. 23 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 content1

Picture of Mya (Arenomya) arenaria

Source
GBIF
Credit
LJ Moore-McClelland
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No repository was searched for a 3D scan: the genus name is too short to search on without matching most of the record.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)