Chlamys hertleini

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- 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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Chlamys hertleini on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
4 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Chlamys hertleini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chlamys hertleini and its relatives
MioceneWhere Chlamys hertleini and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Chlamys sespeensis3 sites
- Balanus2 sites
- Flabellipecten hawleyi2 sites
- Macrochlamis magnolia2 sites
- Mammalia2 sites
- Pacipecten andersoni subandersoni2 sites
- Pecten (Pecten) vanvlecki2 sites
- Turritella inezana2 sites
- Anomia vaquerosensis1 site
- Archaeoparadoxia weltoni1 site
- Califrapana vaquerosensis1 site
- Cancellaria (Euclia) dalliana1 site
- Cheilostomatida1 site
- Chlamys (Chlamys) mollita1 site
- Clementia conradiana1 site
- Conus1 site
- Crenomytilus expansus1 site
- Crenostrea eldridgei1 site
- Desmostylus1 site
- Desmostylus hesperus1 site
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana projecta1 site
- Enaliarctos mealsi1 site
- Glycymeris (Glycymeris) branneri1 site
- Hybolophus granti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Chlamys hertleini, 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- The Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene of California. I. Paleontology2
- Geology of the Northern Channel Islands1
- Age of the Skooner Gulch Formation, Mendocino County, California1
Each of the 4 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 content1

Picture of Chlamys hertleini
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Chlamys hertleini 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 timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Loel and Corey 1932)