Epilucina washingtoniana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EpilucinaPBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Epilucina washingtoniana on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
5 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 Epilucina washingtoniana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Epilucina washingtoniana and its relatives
EoceneWhere Epilucina washingtoniana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Conchocele bisecta3 sites
- Archivesica tschudi2 sites
- Bathybembix columbiana2 sites
- Conchocele bathyaulax2 sites
- Conus weltoni2 sites
- Lamelliconcha clarki2 sites
- Ancistrolepis packardi1 site
- Aturia angustata1 site
- Aturia grandior1 site
- Balanus1 site
- Boreoscala1 site
- Bruclarkia1 site
- Cardiomya anaticepsella1 site
- Crenella porterensis1 site
- Cyclocardia (Cyclocardia) hannibali1 site
- Cyclocardia moniligena1 site
- Dentalium porterensis1 site
- Epitonium (Boreoscala) keaseyense1 site
- Exilia bentsonae1 site
- Fulgurofusus1 site
- Fusinus dilleri1 site
- Lucinoma acutilineata1 site
- Moerella quasimacoma1 site
- Pitar (Pitar) dalli1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Epilucina washingtoniana, 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 heteroconchs2
- Late Eocene chemosynthetic? bivalves from suspect cold seeps, Wagonwheel Mountain, central California2
- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington1
Each of the 5 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 Epilucina washingtoniana 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 Epilucina washingtoniana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Epilucina washingtoniana 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEpilucina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clark 1925)