Cryptomya

Cryptomya

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MyidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Myidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Myidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Myidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 3 of 173 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 173 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 34 of 173 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 30 of 173 occurrencesPleistocene — about 102 of 173 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 10 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 19 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 20 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 36 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 73 occurrences37.71 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

173 occurrences of Cryptomya on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

173 occurrences

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

36 formations

Careaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.83°N, 120.38°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.85°N, 120.26°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.82°N, 120.45°WSisquoc — 34.81°N, 120.22°WSisquoc — 34.90°N, 120.31°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WPancho Rico — 36.18°N, 121.18°WPancho Rico — 35.89°N, 121.05°WPancho Rico — 35.73°N, 120.81°WPancho Rico — 36.19°N, 120.86°WPancho Rico — 36.02°N, 120.88°WPancho Rico — 35.89°N, 120.56°WPancho Rico — 36.13°N, 120.73°WEtchegoin — 36.23°N, 120.31°WEtchegoin — 36.21°N, 120.67°WEtchegoin — 36.15°N, 120.64°WEtchegoin — 36.18°N, 120.64°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WTainohata — 34.75°N, 135.17°ESan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WJacalitos — 36.09°N, 120.47°WKurasiyskaya — 47.05°N, 142.06°ESan Pedro — 33.93°N, 117.95°WSan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPampa del Palo Terrace — 17.58°S, 71.17°WMerced — 37.38°N, 122.19°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WPico — 34.41°N, 118.71°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.47°WLate Pleistocene terrace — 46.37°N, 123.96°WEtolonskaya — 58.42°N, 159.00°EEzhovyi — 60.42°N, 165.92°EKakertskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°ETatsunokuchi — 39.07°N, 141.18°ENutovskaya — 52.57°N, 143.23°EElk River — 42.74°N, 124.49°WCilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°E

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The named rock units Cryptomya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cryptomya and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cryptomya and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,726 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 132 sites for Cryptomya, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

61 references

Each of the 173 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. 49 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Cryptomya

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Cryptomya californica · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:142433

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1848)