Pelecyora
Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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- Sits inside
- CallocardiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 48 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.
148 occurrences of Pelecyora on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
148 occurrencesThese 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
44 formations
- Falun de Jeurs Formation14
- Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation · Wilcox Group7
- Delmar Formation · La Jolla Group7
- Falun de Morigny Formation6
- Flournoy Formation · Umpqua Group6
- Ameki Formation · Bende-Ameki Group5
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The named rock units Pelecyora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pelecyora and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Pelecyora and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
1,401 taxa- Cordiopsis incrassata59 sites
- Glycymeris43 sites
- Parvicardium41 sites
- Granulolabium plicatum38 sites
- Calyptraea37 sites
- Varicorbula gibba37 sites
- Lentidium (Ajanssenium) nitidum36 sites
- Turboella turbinata36 sites
- Lucina35 sites
- Odostomia35 sites
- Polinices35 sites
- Bittium34 sites
- Ctena34 sites
- Cytherea (Callista) splendida33 sites
- Tivelina32 sites
- Benoistia31 sites
- Saxolucina31 sites
- Abra30 sites
- Arcopagia30 sites
- Lunatia30 sites
- Parvilucina30 sites
- Tympanotonos30 sites
- Veneridae30 sites
- Paralucinella undulata29 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 127 sites for Pelecyora, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
49 references- Biostratigraphie et paleoecologie des gisements types du Stampian de la region d''Etampes (Essonne)36
- Molluscan palaeoecology and sedimentological features: an integrated appraoch from the Miocene Meduna section, northern Italy8
- Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon7
- Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 2 Bivalvia, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda, Bryozoa, Annelida, Brachiopoda6
- Eocene molluscan stages and their correlation, San Diego area, California6
- Karagyuleva, 19646
- Late Oligocene gastropods and bivalves from the Lower and Upper Austrian Molasse Basin5
- Middle Eocene brackish-marine mollusks from the Matilija Sandstone at Matilija Hot Springs, Ventura County, Southern California5
- Fauna de moluste a depozitelor Paleogene din nord-vestul Transilvaniei [Molluscan fauna from Paleogene deposits from NW Transilvania]5
- Eocene Mollusca from Nigeria5
- The molluscan fauna of the Borgloon Formation in Belgium (Rupelian, Early Oligocene)4
- Bivalve Molluscs from the Badenian of Northwestern Bulgaria4
Each of the 148 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. 37 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 Pelecyora
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Hectonichus
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Pelecyora nana · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:203058
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCallocardiinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dall 1902