Spondylus dumosus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpondylusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spondylus
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spondylus
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Spondylus
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Spondylidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
17 occurrences of Spondylus dumosus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
17 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
5 formations
- Red Bluff Formation · Vicksburg Group11
- Yazoo Formation2
- Moodys Branch or Red Bluff Formation · Jackson or Vicksburg Group1
- Red Bluff Clay Formation · Vicksburg Group1
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group1
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The named rock units Spondylus dumosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spondylus dumosus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Spondylus dumosus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
158 taxa- Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis7 sites
- Astarte triangulata6 sites
- Corbula6 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) eocenense6 sites
- Scapharca (Scapharca) invidiosa6 sites
- Yoldia clydoniona6 sites
- Corbula engonata5 sites
- Galeodea5 sites
- Glycymeris intercostata5 sites
- Myrtina scopularis5 sites
- Nucula vicksburgensis5 sites
- Pecten (Pecten) perplanus5 sites
- Pleurofusia5 sites
- Sassia5 sites
- Turricula5 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) carsonensis5 sites
- Abra4 sites
- Agnocardia glebosum4 sites
- Caricella4 sites
- Chama (Chama) pappiladerma4 sites
- Chlamys4 sites
- Clavilithes4 sites
- Dentalium4 sites
- Dimya rufaripa4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Spondylus dumosus, 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- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda5
- Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi4
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area3
- Geologic section exposed in Lone Star Cement Company quarry at St. Stephens Bluff on Tombigbee River, 2 2 miles northeast of the present town of St Stephens, Ala2
- Paleogene Verrucidae (Cirripedia: Verrucomorpha) of North America, with descriptions of three new species1
- Paleoecological patterns in molluscan extinctions and recoveries: comparison of the Cretaceous-Paleogene and Eocene-Oligocene extinctions in North America1
- Geology of the Republic of Haiti1
Each of the 17 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.
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No picture of Spondylus dumosus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Spondylus dumosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spondylus dumosus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itSpondylus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morton 1834)