Axinactis (Glycymerella)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AxinactisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Glycymerididae

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 774 ka.

Eocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 21 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 21 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 21 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.2–3.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.9–2.6 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.3–35 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33.9 Mya2.58 Mya38.4 Mya35 ka

21 occurrences of Axinactis (Glycymerella) on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

21 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

11 formations

Mare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.83°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WChagres Sandstone — 9.33°N, 80.00°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.07°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.06°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WSanta Rita — 10.21°N, 69.73°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.74°WCaujarao — 11.46°N, 69.32°W

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The named rock units Axinactis (Glycymerella) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Axinactis (Glycymerella) and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Axinactis (Glycymerella) and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Axinactis (Glycymerella), so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

4 references

Each of the 21 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Axinactis (Glycymerella) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Axinactis (Glycymerella), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Axinactis (Glycymerella) 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 itAxinactis through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Woodring 1925)