Chlamys behringiana

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Bering scallopPBDB
- Sits inside
- ChlamysPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Chlamys
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Chlamys
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Chlamys
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 7.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.
6 occurrences of Chlamys behringiana on record. 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
6 occurrences- Miocene17%
- Pleistocene33%
- Holocene50%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Chlamys behringiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
206 taxa- Lucinoma annulata2 sites
- Macoma2 sites
- Miodontiscus prolongatus2 sites
- Aartsenia gouldi1 site
- Acila (Truncacila)1 site
- Acmaea mitra1 site
- Acrosterigma (Vasticardium)1 site
- Acteocina culcitella1 site
- Actonia compacta1 site
- Admete viridula1 site
- Alia carinata1 site
- Amphissa columbiana1 site
- Anadara (Anadara)1 site
- Anisocorbula ohiroi1 site
- Antalis pretiosa1 site
- Arca (Arca) sisquocensis1 site
- Bittium barbarensis1 site
- Boreotrophon multicostatus1 site
- Boreotrophon pedroana1 site
- Brachidontes1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Caesia perpinguis1 site
- Callianax biplicata1 site
- Calliostoma canaliculatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Chlamys behringiana, 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
3 references- Cenozoic Pectinids of Alaska, Iceland, and Other Northern Regions4
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.1
- New and characteristic species of fossil mollusks from the oil-bearing Tertiary formations of Santa Barbara County, California1
Each of the 6 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 content1

Picture of Chlamys behringiana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Chlamys behringiana 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 itChlamys through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Middendorff 1849)