Pycnodonte (Gigantostrea) leeana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Pycnodonte (Gigantostrea)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pycnodonte
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pycnodonte
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pycnodonte
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
3 occurrences of Pycnodonte (Gigantostrea) leeana on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
- Pungo River Formation2
- Bayshore Formation · Hawthorn Group1
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The named rock units Pycnodonte (Gigantostrea) leeana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pycnodonte (Gigantostrea) leeana and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pycnodonte (Gigantostrea) leeana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
240 taxa- Aturia2 sites
- Pecten mclellani2 sites
- Abertella aberta1 site
- Actinocyclus1 site
- Actinocyclus ingens1 site
- Actinocyclus octonarius1 site
- Actinocyclus tenellus1 site
- Actinoptychus marylandicus1 site
- Actinoptychus senarius1 site
- Actinoptychus virginicus1 site
- Aetobatus1 site
- Alopias superciliosus1 site
- Alopias vulpinus1 site
- Aluterus1 site
- Amusium1 site
- Anatidae1 site
- Anaulus mediterraneus intermedia1 site
- Ankylorhiza1 site
- Ankylorhiza tiedemani1 site
- Annellus1 site
- Anoplonassa1 site
- Araeodelphis natator1 site
- Ardenna gravis1 site
- Astarte thisphila1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pycnodonte (Gigantostrea) leeana, 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
3 references- Petuch and Roberts, 20071
- Molluscan fauna of the Pungo River Formation, Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina1
- A new pycnodont oyster from the Pungo River Formation, and an annotated list of Cenozoic pycnodonts of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Pycnodonte (Gigantostrea) leeana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pycnodonte (Gigantostrea) leeana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pycnodonte (Gigantostrea) leeana 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 itPycnodonte (Gigantostrea) through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson 1987