Amusium papyraceum

Amusium papyraceum is an extinct species of scallop from the family Pectinidae, recovered from deposits in the Dominican Republic.

Amusium papyraceum

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/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
AmusiumPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Amusium
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Amusium
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Amusium
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesMiocene — about 25 of 39 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 39 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 39 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.9–9.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.2–8.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.5–7.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 7 occurrences6.4–5.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15.98 Mya3.6 Mya23.5 Mya2.1 Mya

39 occurrences of Amusium papyraceum 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

39 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

5 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 — 19.55°N, 71.28°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.37°N, 70.76°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°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°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.66°S, 45.37°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WMao — 19.57°N, 71.17°W

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The named rock units Amusium papyraceum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Amusium papyraceum and its relatives

Miocene

Where Amusium papyraceum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

914 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Amusium papyraceum, 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

5 references

Each of the 39 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 content1

Picture of Amusium papyraceum

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 Amusium papyraceum 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. (Gabb 1873)