Sawkinsia matleyi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SawkinsiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cardiidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Cardiidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Sawkinsia matleyi on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
5 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
3 formations
- Somerset Formation · White Limestone Group2
- Troy Limestone Formation · White Limestone Group2
- Moneague Formation · White Limestone Group1
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The named rock units Sawkinsia matleyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sawkinsia matleyi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Sawkinsia matleyi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Superlucina megameris3 sites
- Bulla2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Cypraea2 sites
- Turritella2 sites
- Velates2 sites
- Xenophora2 sites
- Amaurellina moragai1 site
- Ampullina1 site
- Ampullospira1 site
- Aturia1 site
- Avicularium trechmanni1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Campanile1 site
- Cancellaria1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Dirocerithium1 site
- Durhamella1 site
- Eurhodia1 site
- Fimbria1 site
- Fimbria jamaicensis1 site
- Fragum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Sawkinsia matleyi, 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
2 references- Lamellibranchs from the White Limestone of Jamaica3
- Mollusks from the White Limestone Group of Jamaica2
Each of the 5 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 Sawkinsia matleyi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sawkinsia matleyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itSawkinsia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cox 1941