Chama involuta
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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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
15 occurrences of Chama involuta on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
15 occurrencesThese 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 Formation5
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group3
- Riviere Gauche Formation2
- Mao Formation2
- Baitoa Formation1
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The named rock units Chama involuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Chama involuta and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Chama involuta and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
541 taxa- Amusium papyraceum2 sites
- Anomia2 sites
- Conus catenatus2 sites
- Dendostrea frons2 sites
- Ostrea (Lopha) guppyi2 sites
- Placunanomia lithobleta2 sites
- Serpulorbis papulosus2 sites
- Strombus proximus2 sites
- Ventricolaria blandiana2 sites
- "Arca" umbonata morantensis1 site
- "Arca" yaquensis berryi1 site
- Abra (Abra)1 site
- Abra (Abra) triangulata1 site
- Acar domingensis1 site
- Acmaea1 site
- Acmaturris brisis1 site
- Acmaturris comparata1 site
- Acmaturris scalida1 site
- Acropora saludensis1 site
- Acteocina1 site
- Acteocina anetaspira1 site
- Acteocina bullata1 site
- Acteocina lepta1 site
- Acteon eurystoma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Chama involuta, 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
4 references- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions11
- Géologie générale et régionale de la République D'Haiti2
- Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 1: Pelecypods and Scaphopods1
- Santo Domingo type sections and fossils1
Each of the 15 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 content0
No picture of Chama involuta 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 Chama involuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Chama involuta 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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What may have been alongside itChama through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Guppy 1873