Aulacomya

Aulacomya is a genus of edible saltwater mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae, the true mussels.

Aulacomya

Rodrigo Fernández · 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
MytilidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Mytilidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Mytilidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Mytilidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae

Time the record covers

At least 251 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 43 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 43 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 43 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 43 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 5 of 43 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 43 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 43 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 43 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 43 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 43 occurrencesEocene — about 10 of 43 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 43 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 43 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 43 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 43 occurrences265–256 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences256–247 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences203–194 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences194–186 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences186–177 Mya — about 4 occurrences177–168 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences150–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–124 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences124–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–35 Mya — about 6 occurrences35–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–8.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.8–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences251.902 Mya11.7 ka265 Mya0 Mya

43 occurrences of Aulacomya on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

43 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

13 formations

La Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.67°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.64°WSan Julian — 49.30°S, 67.72°WSan Julian — 47.13°S, 66.05°WKauru — 45.06°S, 170.73°ESan Julián — 47.03°S, 66.70°WSan Julián — 49.30°S, 67.72°WBorgloon — 50.80°N, 5.33°EWhitby Mudstone — 54.26°N, 1.28°WRio Turbio — 51.53°S, 72.30°WHorry Clay — 33.69°N, 78.89°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.12°S, 68.48°WBredasdorp — 33.88°S, 18.45°EÁgua de Madeiros — 39.73°N, 9.04°WUpper Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WBellerophon — 43.71°N, 18.75°E

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The named rock units Aulacomya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aulacomya and its relatives

Eocene

Where Aulacomya and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

411 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Aulacomya, 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

19 references

Each of the 43 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. 7 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 content2

Picture of Aulacomya

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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What may have been alongside itMytilidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mörch 1853