Pholadomya (Pholadomya) nasuta

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Pholadomya (Pholadomya)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pholadomyidae
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Pholadomyidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pholadomyidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
23 occurrences of Pholadomya (Pholadomya) nasuta on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
23 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Pholadomya (Pholadomya) nasuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) nasuta and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Pholadomya (Pholadomya) nasuta and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
157 taxa- Cucullaea mathewsonii11 sites
- Dentalium cooperi10 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum10 sites
- Turritella infragranulata pachecoensis10 sites
- Solena (Eosolen) stantoni9 sites
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus8 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii7 sites
- Pseudoperissolax tricarnatus7 sites
- Tellina (Saulella) undulifera7 sites
- Turritella infragranulata7 sites
- Flabellum cuneiforme6 sites
- Polinices hornii6 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa5 sites
- Amauropsis martinezensis5 sites
- Brachysphingus sinuatus5 sites
- Palaeopsammia zitteli5 sites
- Pitar quadratus5 sites
- Teredo5 sites
- Glycymerita major4 sites
- Lacunaria striata4 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) alaeformis4 sites
- Ostrea4 sites
- Pitar simiensis4 sites
- Ringicula (Ringicula) pinguis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Pholadomya (Pholadomya) nasuta, 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
8 references- Fauna of the Martinez Eocene of California10
- A contribution to the paleontology of the Martinez Eocene of California4
- A new species of brachyuran from the Paleocene of California2
- Geology of the coast ranges immediately north of the San Francisco Bay region, California2
- Geology of the eastern part of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California2
- Additions to the Late Paleocene Molluscan Fauna from the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County. Southern California1
- Stratigraphy, paleontology, and geology of the Central Santa Cruz Mountains, California Coast Ranges1
- Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California1
Each of the 23 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
Media content1

Picture of Pholadomya (Pholadomya) nasuta
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPholadomya (Pholadomya) through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)