Cymatoica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TellinidaePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 4.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 774 ka.
7 occurrences of Cymatoica on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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 occurrences- Miocene29%
- Pliocene51%
- Pleistocene20%
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
4 formations
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group3
- Cercado Formation2
- Armuelles Formation · Charco Azul Group1
- Canoa Formation1
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The named rock units Cymatoica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cymatoica and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Cymatoica and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
739 taxa- Architectonica nobilis3 sites
- Acar domingensis2 sites
- Antillophos elegans2 sites
- Astralium2 sites
- Bittium2 sites
- Cancellaria2 sites
- Cavolinia2 sites
- Chionopsis woodwardi2 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) sericea2 sites
- Cyclinella2 sites
- Diplodonta2 sites
- Distorsio decussata2 sites
- Japonactaeon punctostriata2 sites
- Malea camura2 sites
- Merisca2 sites
- Moerella (Scissula)2 sites
- Nassarius (Uzita) cercadensis2 sites
- Neritina2 sites
- Olivella (Olivella) indivisa2 sites
- Phacoides2 sites
- Pinna2 sites
- Polinices hepaticus2 sites
- Polystira barretti2 sites
- Psammacoma olivella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cymatoica, 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
5 references- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions3
- Tertiary and Quaternary fossils from Burica Peninsula of Panama and Costa Rica1
- A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador1
- Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 1: Pelecypods and Scaphopods1
- Santo Domingo type sections and fossils1
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. 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 content0
No picture of Cymatoica 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 Cymatoica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cymatoica 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 itTellinidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1889)