Talochlamys pusio

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TalochlamysPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pectinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
38 occurrences of Talochlamys pusio on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
38 occurrences- Miocene71%
- Pliocene21%
- Pleistocene8%
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
8 formations
- Red Crag Formation4
- Coralline Crag Formation3
- Ghibirti Formation · Hafún Group1
- Middle Fars Formation1
- Asmari Limestone Formation1
- Dubar Formation · Guban Group1
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The named rock units Talochlamys pusio has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Talochlamys pusio and its relatives
MioceneWhere Talochlamys pusio and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
701 taxa- Serpulidae18 sites
- Bryozoa16 sites
- Conus15 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) rotundata13 sites
- Glycymeris13 sites
- Lithophaga lithophaga13 sites
- Chlamys12 sites
- Cypraea12 sites
- Creusia11 sites
- Haliotis tuberculata11 sites
- Porites11 sites
- Aequipecten opercularis10 sites
- Anadara10 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata10 sites
- Botula fusca10 sites
- Chama gryphoides10 sites
- Lima lima10 sites
- Ostrea10 sites
- Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella10 sites
- Vermetus10 sites
- Gastrana fragilis9 sites
- Ostrea edulis9 sites
- Aequipecten8 sites
- Cardita senilis8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Talochlamys pusio, 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
14 references- Les formations recifales coralliennes du Miocene superieur d'Algerie et du Maroc [Upper Miocene coral reef formations from Algeria and Morocco]15
- Wood, 18506
- Occurence and taphonomy of bivalves from the Nijar reef (Messinian, Late Miocene, SE Spain)3
- Bryozoaires des milieux récifaux miocénes du sillon sud-rifain au Maroc2
- L'Oligocene e il Miocene della Somalia. Stratigrafia, Tettonica, Paleontologia (Macroforaminferi, Coralli, Molluschi)2
- Fossil Mollusca from southern Persia (Iran) and Bahrein Island2
- Biodiversity and taphonomy of bivalve assemblages of the Pliocene of Algeria (Bas Chelif Basin)1
- Checklist of the Pleistocene marine molluscs of Prainha and Lagoinhas (Santa Maria Island, Azores)1
- Late Quaternary warm marine mollusks from Santa Maria (Azores) paleoecologic and paleobiogeographic considerations1
- The bivalvia (Mollusca) from the Upper Miocene of the Sais Basin (Southern Rifian Corridor, Morocco). Palaeobiogeography and paleoecology1
- Messinian coral reefs of western Orania, Algeria1
- The Messinian reef complex of Melilla, northeastern Rif, Morocco1
Each of the 38 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Talochlamys pusio
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Talochlamys pusio 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 itTalochlamys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)