Propeamussium
Searched as Propeamussium (Parvamussium) bronni pennyi. The Paleobiology Database treats Propeamussium as the accepted name.

Marie Hennion · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- PropeamussiidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Propeamussiidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Propeamussium on record, most of them in the Oligocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
1 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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 Propeamussium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Propeamussium and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Propeamussium and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
2,071 taxa- Nuculana44 sites
- Cucullaea40 sites
- Amusium (Propeamussium) alabamense35 sites
- Corbula33 sites
- Dentalium29 sites
- Naticidae26 sites
- Retusa24 sites
- Turritella23 sites
- Venericardia23 sites
- Crassatella21 sites
- Cuspidaria20 sites
- Nucula20 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mediavia19 sites
- Cadulus17 sites
- Modiolus16 sites
- Tellina16 sites
- Tornatellaea16 sites
- Turridae16 sites
- Ostrea15 sites
- Athleta (Volutocorbis)14 sites
- Barbatia14 sites
- Bittium14 sites
- Jupiteria14 sites
- Limopsis14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 175 sites for Propeamussium, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Propeamussium
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Marie Hennion
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Propeamussium 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 itPropeamussiidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Gregorio 1884)