Eurhomalea

Eurhomalea

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
VeneridaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 136 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 136 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 136 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 136 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 136 occurrencesEocene — about 104 of 136 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 136 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 136 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 136 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 136 occurrences165–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences154–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–115 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–104 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences104–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–82 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences77–71 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–60 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 24 occurrences44–38 Mya — about 35 occurrences38–33 Mya — about 45 occurrences33–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–5.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.5–0 Mya — about 22 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka165 Mya0 Mya

136 occurrences of Eurhomalea on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

136 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

14 formations

La Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.68°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.70°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.63°WSubmeseta — 64.25°S, 56.64°WSubmeseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WSubmeseta — 64.24°S, 56.63°WSubmeseta — 64.26°S, 56.66°WPampa del Palo Terrace — 17.58°S, 71.17°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.05°S, 70.79°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.05°S, 70.79°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.15°S, 70.93°WPolonez Cove — 62.25°S, 59.00°WGuadal — 47.00°S, 72.43°WPisco — 15.54°S, 75.73°WPisco — 14.20°S, 76.12°WDestruction Bay — 62.00°S, 57.67°WCaracoles — 15.50°S, 74.75°WCaracoles — 15.53°S, 74.74°WEl Chacay — 47.33°S, 71.33°WLomas Terrace — 30.33°S, 74.75°WSan Juan Terrace — 15.33°S, 75.17°WCoquimbo — 30.33°S, 71.50°WEstratos Agua Amarga — 27.72°S, 70.92°W

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The named rock units Eurhomalea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eurhomalea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Eurhomalea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

283 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 94 sites for Eurhomalea, 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

17 references

Each of the 136 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. 5 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 Eurhomalea

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itVeneridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1920