Chama gryphoides

Chama gryphoides is a species of cemented saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Chamidae, the jewel boxes.

Chama gryphoides

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChamaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Chama
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Chama
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Chama
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 54 occurrencesMiocene — about 46 of 54 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 54 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 54 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 9 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 9 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.4–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence785 ka–0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20.45 Mya2.58 Mya23.5 Mya0 Mya

54 occurrences of Chama gryphoides 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

54 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

17 formations

Koronia — 35.08°N, 33.17°EKoronia — 35.03°N, 33.15°ERed Crag — 52.05°N, 1.32°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°EWeglinek — 50.72°N, 21.95°EWeglin — 50.72°N, 21.95°ELychow — 50.69°N, 22.03°EPinczow — 50.53°N, 20.53°EGirbova de Sus — 46.43°N, 23.63°EGavdos — 34.83°N, 24.08°EApostoli — 35.25°N, 24.58°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EFalun de Sainte-Avit — 43.91°N, 0.66°WCapo San Marco — 39.90°N, 8.43°EPanchina — 43.57°N, 10.35°EVienna Basin — 47.95°N, 16.20°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°E

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The named rock units Chama gryphoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chama gryphoides and its relatives

Miocene

Where Chama gryphoides and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,662 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Chama gryphoides, 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

29 references

Each of the 54 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. 17 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 Chama gryphoides

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itChama through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)