Chama radiata
No picture of Chama radiata 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 radiata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Chama radiata on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group2
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The named rock units Chama radiata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chama radiata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Chama radiata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
175 taxa- Abra nitens2 sites
- Acteon annectens2 sites
- Agaronia media2 sites
- Architectonica bellastriata2 sites
- Bathytormus flexurus2 sites
- Bittium koeneni2 sites
- Bullata semen2 sites
- Cadulus jacksonensis2 sites
- Caestocorbula wailesiana2 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta2 sites
- Calyptraphorus stamineus2 sites
- Capulus americanus2 sites
- Corbula densata2 sites
- Cymatosyrinx dorseyi2 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus2 sites
- Hilgardia multilineata2 sites
- Hipponix2 sites
- Kapalmerella alveata2 sites
- Limopsis radiata2 sites
- Melanella jacksonensis2 sites
- Pseudotoma heilprini2 sites
- Pteria limula2 sites
- Retusa jacksonensis2 sites
- Solariorbis subangulatus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Chama radiata, 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
2 references- Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi1
- Mollusca of the Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi1
Each of the 2 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
Media content0
No picture of Chama radiata 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 radiata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Chama radiata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChama through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dockery 1977