Glossus (Miocardiopsis)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlossusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Glossidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Glossidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Glossidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 50 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
23 occurrences of Glossus (Miocardiopsis) 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
23 occurrences- Late Cretaceous35%
- Paleocene9%
- Eocene39%
- Oligocene13%
- Miocene4%
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
7 formations
- London Clay Formation2
- Calcaire de Vigny Formation1
- Maastrichtian chalk Formation1
- Rødvig Formation1
- Pallinup Siltstone Formation1
- Rakoczy Formation1
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The named rock units Glossus (Miocardiopsis) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Glossus (Miocardiopsis) and its relatives
EoceneWhere Glossus (Miocardiopsis) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
571 taxa- Arcopsis8 sites
- Nuculana8 sites
- Barbatia6 sites
- Pycnodonte vesicularis6 sites
- Vetericardiella6 sites
- Acar5 sites
- Brachidontes5 sites
- Leptosolen5 sites
- Limopsis5 sites
- Nucula5 sites
- Panopea5 sites
- Pitar5 sites
- Pseudolimea5 sites
- Spondylus5 sites
- Striarca5 sites
- Agerostrea mesenterica4 sites
- Anomia argentaria4 sites
- Botula4 sites
- Caestocorbula crassiplica4 sites
- Corbulamella4 sites
- Crassatella vadosa4 sites
- Crenella serica4 sites
- Ctenoides4 sites
- Cucullaea4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Glossus (Miocardiopsis), 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
8 references- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages7
- Fauna de moluste a depozitelor Paleogene din nord-vestul Transilvaniei [Molluscan fauna from Paleogene deposits from NW Transilvania]7
- Personal data2
- Molluscs from the Tilehurst Member (London Clay Formation, Early Eocene) at Crondall and Up Nately (Hampshire)2
- Fauna Fosila din Oligocenul de la Piatra Neamt2
- Eocene bivalves and gastropods from the Pallinup Siltstone, Western Australia, with new records from the Eocene and Oligocene of southeastern Australia1
- La faune danienne de Vigny (Val-d’Oise, France): importance pour l’étude de la diversification des mollusques au début du Tertiaire1
- Bivalve Molluscs from the Badenian of Northwestern Bulgaria1
Each of the 23 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.
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No picture of Glossus (Miocardiopsis) 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 Glossus (Miocardiopsis), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glossus (Miocardiopsis) 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.