Spisula jacksonensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpisulaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spisula
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Spisula
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Spisula
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
37 occurrences of Spisula jacksonensis 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
37 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group35
- Cockfield Formation2
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The named rock units Spisula jacksonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spisula jacksonensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Spisula jacksonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
309 taxa- Caestocorbula wailesiana30 sites
- Corbula densata30 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus30 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata28 sites
- Kapalmerella alveata27 sites
- Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta27 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis27 sites
- Callista annexa24 sites
- Retusa jacksonensis24 sites
- Tellinidae24 sites
- Bathytormus flexurus23 sites
- Calorhadia (Litorhadia) mater23 sites
- Calyptraphorus stamineus23 sites
- Hipponix23 sites
- Alveinus minutus22 sites
- Pitar securiformis22 sites
- Actinopterygii21 sites
- Crassinella pygmaea21 sites
- Gastropoda20 sites
- Hilgardia multilineata20 sites
- Pteria limula20 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta19 sites
- Euspira jacksonensis19 sites
- Bivalvia17 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Spisula jacksonensis, 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
7 references- Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi26
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals3
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area3
- Jackson Eocene mollusks2
- Mollusca of the Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi1
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
Each of the 37 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 Spisula jacksonensis 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 Spisula jacksonensis, 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 itSpisula through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.