Scapharca (Cunearca) melloi
No picture of Scapharca (Cunearca) melloi 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 Scapharca (Cunearca) melloi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnadaraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Anadara
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Anadara
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Anadara
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Scapharca (Cunearca) melloi 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
7 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Scapharca (Cunearca) melloi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scapharca (Cunearca) melloi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Scapharca (Cunearca) melloi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
336 taxa- Architectonica nobilis6 sites
- Chama6 sites
- Chione (Lirophora) agraria6 sites
- Ficus paraensis6 sites
- Glycymeris6 sites
- Lunulites6 sites
- Plicatula6 sites
- Tellina6 sites
- Trachycardium6 sites
- Turritella6 sites
- Clementia (Clementia) dariena5 sites
- Conus5 sites
- Cypraea pennae5 sites
- Pleurofusia5 sites
- Venericardia5 sites
- Amauropsis4 sites
- Arcinella yaquensis4 sites
- Calliostoma cirrus4 sites
- Calliostoma derbyi4 sites
- Calliostoma pirabicum4 sites
- Calliostoma retectum4 sites
- Cancellaria4 sites
- Cardium4 sites
- Cardium philotarium4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Scapharca (Cunearca) melloi, 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 referencesEach of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Scapharca (Cunearca) melloi 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 Scapharca (Cunearca) melloi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scapharca (Cunearca) melloi 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 itAnadara through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Maury 1924)