Conchocele bathyaulax

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ConchocelePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, chemosymbioticPBDB, for Thyasiridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Thyasiridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Thyasiridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 6.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
7 occurrences of Conchocele bathyaulax 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
7 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 Conchocele bathyaulax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
83 taxa- Lamelliconcha clarki4 sites
- Moerella quasimacoma4 sites
- Anechinocardium weaveri3 sites
- Bathybembix columbiana3 sites
- Exilia bentsonae3 sites
- Boreoscala2 sites
- Conus weltoni2 sites
- Delectopecten2 sites
- Epilucina washingtoniana2 sites
- Epitonium (Boreoscala) condoni2 sites
- Epitonium (Boreoscala) keaseyense2 sites
- Fulgurofusus2 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis2 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) clementensis2 sites
- Portlandia chehalisensis2 sites
- Procerapex bentsonae2 sites
- ? Brisingida indet.1 site
- Acamptogenotia (Acamptogenotia) nodulosa1 site
- Acamptogenotia (Acamptogenotia) tessellata1 site
- Acharax1 site
- Acila1 site
- Acila (Truncacila) nehalemensis1 site
- Adekunbiella durhami1 site
- Asteroidea indet.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Conchocele bathyaulax, 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- Paleogene marine bivalves of the deep-water Keasey Formation in Oregon, Part III: The heteroconchs4
- Thyasirid bivalves from Cretaceous and Paleogene cold seeps2
- A methane seep from the deep-marine, late Eocene Keasey Formation, Rock Creek, Columbia County, Oregon1
Each of the 7 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Conchocele bathyaulax
- 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 Conchocele bathyaulax was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itConchocele through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hickman 2015