Gastrochaena

Gastrochaena is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Gastrochaenidae. The type species of this genus is Gastrochaena cuneiformis.

Gastrochaena

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GastrochaenidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
boringPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 251 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 169 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 169 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 169 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 169 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 169 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 169 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 13 of 169 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 17 of 169 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 22 of 169 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 9 of 169 occurrencesEocene — about 29 of 169 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 169 occurrencesMiocene — about 41 of 169 occurrencesPliocene — about 18 of 169 occurrencesPleistocene — about 16 of 169 occurrences259–251 Mya — about 1 occurrence164–156 Mya — about 7 occurrences156–147 Mya — about 6 occurrences147–138 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences138–130 Mya — about 6 occurrences130–121 Mya — about 3 occurrences121–112 Mya — about 3 occurrences112–104 Mya — about 3 occurrences104–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–86 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences86–78 Mya — about 5 occurrences78–69 Mya — about 10 occurrences69–60 Mya — about 10 occurrences60–52 Mya — about 5 occurrences52–43 Mya — about 7 occurrences43–35 Mya — about 20 occurrences35–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–8.6 Mya — about 30 occurrences8.6–0 Mya — about 39 occurrences251.902 Mya129 ka259 Mya0 Mya

169 occurrences of Gastrochaena on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

169 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

66 formations

Moodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WVuache — 46.83°N, 6.52°ECaloosahatchee — 25.91°N, 81.36°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WAquia — 38.82°N, 76.75°WAquia — 38.43°N, 77.38°WAquia — 38.50°N, 77.59°WSeroe Domi — 12.27°N, 69.13°WSeroe Domi — 12.17°N, 68.99°WAguja — 29.83°N, 103.25°WCastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WWeglinek — 50.72°N, 21.95°ERed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ELillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°EGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WLangental Beds — 27.40°S, 15.41°EFalun de Sainte-Avit — 43.91°N, 0.66°WPigeon Point — 37.19°N, 122.40°WBlack Creek — 34.68°N, 78.23°WBlack Creek — 35.22°N, 77.68°WKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°WMaastricht — 51.00°N, 6.00°EPerte du Rhône — 46.83°N, 6.52°EKimmeridge Clay — 50.63°N, 2.35°W

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The named rock units Gastrochaena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 68 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gastrochaena and its relatives

Miocene

Where Gastrochaena and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,624 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 118 sites for Gastrochaena, 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

89 references

Each of the 169 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. 77 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 Gastrochaena

Credit
FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Gastrochaena cuneiformis · usnm:invertebrate zoology:94475

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Spengler 1783