Phacoides

Phacoides is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Lucinidae.

Phacoides

Marie HENNION · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
LucininaePBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 46 of 221 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 13 of 221 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 18 of 221 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 47 of 221 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 65 of 221 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 221 occurrencesPleistocene — about 15 of 221 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 8 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 18 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 15 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 5 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–51 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 11 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 11 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 13 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 13 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 12 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 18 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 11 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 11 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences72.2 Mya129 ka85 Mya0 Mya

221 occurrences of Phacoides on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

221 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

53 formations

Providence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.94°N, 86.11°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.76°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.77°N, 85.15°WProvidence — 31.82°N, 84.97°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 85.72°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.85°N, 71.37°WCastilletes — 11.99°N, 71.28°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.20°N, 82.18°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.56°N, 82.39°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.11°N, 82.70°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.33°N, 82.76°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.36°N, 83.13°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.30°N, 83.10°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.28°N, 83.71°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.38°N, 83.80°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.37°N, 83.94°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.82°N, 82.47°WArcadia — 27.96°N, 82.37°WArcadia — 29.25°N, 82.17°WArcadia — 30.21°N, 84.30°WArcadia — 30.30°N, 84.20°WArcadia — 30.62°N, 84.91°WArcadia — 30.69°N, 84.84°WArcadia — 30.49°N, 85.17°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 33.14°N, 96.11°WAmeki — 5.57°N, 7.52°EAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°EChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WFlint River — 30.91°N, 84.58°WCaimito — 9.21°N, 79.91°WCaimito — 9.15°N, 79.86°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.42°N, 71.08°WCalvert — 38.75°N, 76.69°WCalvert — 38.74°N, 76.56°WCalvert — 38.47°N, 76.48°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WSanta Susana — 34.07°N, 118.54°WSanta Susana — 34.26°N, 118.69°WSanta Susana — 34.24°N, 118.73°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EMount Hope — 9.27°N, 79.92°WChoctawhatchee — 30.52°N, 86.48°WPromina — 43.95°N, 16.12°EPromina — 43.93°N, 16.07°EPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.16°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WTepetate — 31.62°N, 115.80°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WTamiami — 26.67°N, 81.73°WTamiami — 26.73°N, 81.52°W

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The named rock units Phacoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 54 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phacoides and its relatives

Miocene

Where Phacoides and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,581 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 161 sites for Phacoides, 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

60 references

Each of the 221 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. 48 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 Phacoides

Credit
Marie HENNION
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Phacoides pectinatus · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:288709

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Blainville 1825