Gastrochaenidae

Gastrochaenidae is a taxonomic family of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the order Gastrochaenida.

Gastrochaenidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GastrochaenoideaPBDB
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 208 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 208 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 208 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 208 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 208 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 208 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 16 of 208 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 17 of 208 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 47 of 208 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 11 of 208 occurrencesEocene — about 32 of 208 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 208 occurrencesMiocene — about 42 of 208 occurrencesPliocene — about 19 of 208 occurrencesPleistocene — about 18 of 208 occurrences259–251 Mya — about 1 occurrence173–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–156 Mya — about 9 occurrences156–147 Mya — about 6 occurrences147–138 Mya — about 1 occurrence138–130 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 7 occurrences78–69 Mya — about 23 occurrences69–60 Mya — about 21 occurrences60–52 Mya — about 7 occurrences52–43 Mya — about 8 occurrences43–35 Mya — about 22 occurrences35–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–8.6 Mya — about 31 occurrences8.6–0 Mya — about 42 occurrences251.902 Mya129 ka259 Mya0 Mya

208 occurrences of Gastrochaenidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

208 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

76 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°WPrairie Bluff — 33.73°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 31.99°N, 85.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°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°WMaastricht — 51.00°N, 6.00°EVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WVincentown — 39.93°N, 74.78°WAguja — 29.83°N, 103.25°WWest Walton — 52.18°N, 0.12°EWhite Limestone — 51.75°N, 1.17°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°W

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The named rock units Gastrochaenidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 52 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 88 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gastrochaenidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Gastrochaenidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,702 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 147 sites for Gastrochaenidae, 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

102 references

Each of the 208 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. 90 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 content1

Picture of Gastrochaenidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Gastrochaenidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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

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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. Gray 1840