Amusium

Amusium

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PectinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 335 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Carboniferous — about 5 of 344 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 344 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 344 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 344 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 16 of 344 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 10 of 344 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 344 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 344 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 344 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 344 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 344 occurrencesEocene — about 35 of 344 occurrencesOligocene — about 13 of 344 occurrencesMiocene — about 155 of 344 occurrencesPliocene — about 70 of 344 occurrencesPleistocene — about 30 of 344 occurrences354–342 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences342–330 Mya — about 3 occurrences330–318 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences271–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence248–236 Mya — about 6 occurrences236–224 Mya — about 11 occurrences212–200 Mya — about 2 occurrences200–189 Mya — about 3 occurrences189–177 Mya — about 6 occurrences177–165 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences165–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–59 Mya — about 4 occurrences59–47 Mya — about 6 occurrences47–35 Mya — about 21 occurrences35–24 Mya — about 20 occurrences24–12 Mya — about 64 occurrences12–0 Mya — about 192 occurrences335.9 Mya129 ka354 Mya0 Mya

344 occurrences of Amusium 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

344 occurrences

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

97 formations

Gurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.25°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.55°N, 71.28°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WGurabo — 19.37°N, 70.76°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WPuerto Madryn — 42.50°S, 64.25°WPuerto Madryn — 42.67°S, 64.98°WPuerto Madryn — 42.97°S, 64.31°WPuerto Madryn — 41.20°S, 69.15°WPuerto Madryn — 42.42°S, 64.30°WPuerto Madryn — 42.58°S, 64.32°WPuerto Madryn — 42.07°S, 63.75°WPuerto Madryn — 42.42°S, 64.48°WPuerto Madryn — 44.50°S, 65.27°WCrystal River Limestone — 31.26°N, 86.77°WCrystal River Limestone — 30.12°N, 83.58°WCrystal River Limestone — 30.77°N, 85.23°WCrystal River Limestone — 30.05°N, 83.18°WCrystal River Limestone — 29.39°N, 82.45°WCrystal River Limestone — 29.25°N, 82.17°WCrystal River Limestone — 29.67°N, 83.39°WCrystal River Limestone — 28.90°N, 82.59°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.85°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.88°WChagres Sandstone — 9.15°N, 79.96°WChagres Sandstone — 8.85°N, 81.70°WChagres Sandstone — 9.28°N, 80.05°WChagres Sandstone — 9.60°N, 79.53°WChagres Sandstone — 9.17°N, 80.28°WCulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.15°N, 79.62°WCulebra — 9.13°N, 79.62°WCercado — 19.57°N, 71.25°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.27°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.18°WTogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EGorno — 45.87°N, 9.87°EToukoshan — 24.47°N, 120.72°EReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WFinikia — 35.30°N, 25.27°EWaccamaw — 34.63°N, 78.57°WWaccamaw — 34.29°N, 78.51°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 32.98°N, 79.89°WWaccamaw — 32.91°N, 79.95°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.75°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 30.94°N, 96.95°WCorsicana Marl — 30.69°N, 97.20°WNancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WMonterey — 37.02°N, 122.13°WMonterey — 33.59°N, 117.71°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WOcala — 30.99°N, 84.55°WOcala — 30.92°N, 84.56°WOcala — 31.58°N, 84.16°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WJackson Bluff — 29.85°N, 84.66°WAgua Clara — 10.92°N, 70.75°WAgua Clara — 11.02°N, 70.67°W

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The named rock units Amusium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 73 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 74 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amusium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Amusium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

4,171 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 211 sites for Amusium, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

117 references

Each of the 344 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. 105 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 Amusium

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Amusium 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Röding 1798)