Glycymeris

Glycymeris

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Also called
bittersweet clamPBDB
Sits inside
GlycymeridinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Glycymerididae

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 1824 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 41 of 1824 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 285 of 1824 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 84 of 1824 occurrencesEocene — about 361 of 1824 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 248 of 1824 occurrencesMiocene — about 366 of 1824 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 209 of 1824 occurrencesPleistocene — about 227 of 1824 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 11 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 14 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 5 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 7 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 9 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 29 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 40 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 30 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 23 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 23 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 90 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 66 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 42 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 33 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 24 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 68 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 144 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 112 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 134 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 97 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 85 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 104 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 118 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 104 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 413 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

1,824 occurrences of Glycymeris 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

1,824 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

412 formations

Gosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.57°N, 87.58°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.32°WMoodys Branch — 32.29°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.90°N, 90.19°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WMoodys Branch — 32.73°N, 90.46°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 86.08°WProvidence — 31.97°N, 86.00°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.78°N, 85.14°WProvidence — 31.75°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.80°N, 85.00°WFalun de Jeurs — 48.48°N, 2.23°EHinoshima — 32.47°N, 130.47°EHinoshima — 32.39°N, 130.40°ELadd — 33.73°N, 117.62°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.68°WLadd — 33.76°N, 117.64°WRedding — 40.64°N, 122.24°WRedding — 40.65°N, 122.25°WRedding — 40.67°N, 122.26°WRedding — 40.67°N, 122.14°WRedding — 40.64°N, 122.25°WRedding — 40.65°N, 122.37°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.23°N, 77.94°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.29°N, 78.51°WWaccamaw — 34.07°N, 78.27°WWaccamaw — 33.97°N, 78.39°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 33.86°N, 78.55°WWaccamaw — 33.63°N, 79.16°WWaccamaw — 33.40°N, 79.25°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.60°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.70°N, 88.28°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.50°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WMint Spring — 30.98°N, 88.73°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 31.98°N, 89.42°WMint Spring — 32.27°N, 89.99°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WMint Spring — 32.36°N, 90.87°WMint Spring — 32.47°N, 90.84°WMint Spring — 31.67°N, 88.65°WMint Spring — 31.66°N, 88.66°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.48°N, 90.80°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 32.35°N, 90.88°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 1.00°S, 48.00°WPirabas — 1.23°S, 47.40°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.68°S, 47.39°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 2.58°S, 43.38°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.36°N, 92.98°WCook Mountain — 32.52°N, 92.64°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 31.09°N, 95.95°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 29.95°N, 97.14°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.17°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WFalun de Morigny — 48.45°N, 2.20°EBerada — 51.10°N, 5.80°EHiraiga — 39.63°N, 141.95°EHiraiga — 39.85°N, 141.97°EHiraiga — 40.00°N, 141.83°EHiraiga — 40.09°N, 141.84°EHiraiga — 39.93°N, 141.94°EVaqueros — 34.52°N, 120.43°WVaqueros — 34.53°N, 120.31°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.14°WVaqueros — 34.59°N, 120.23°WVaqueros — 34.93°N, 119.05°WVaqueros — 34.98°N, 120.21°WVaqueros — 35.27°N, 120.60°WVaqueros — 35.31°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 35.25°N, 120.06°WVaqueros — 35.77°N, 121.06°WVaqueros — 36.18°N, 121.31°WChiwapa — 34.60°N, 88.95°WChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.84°WChiwapa — 34.46°N, 88.90°WChiwapa — 34.38°N, 88.98°WChiwapa — 34.36°N, 88.92°WChiwapa — 34.19°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 34.51°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 33.72°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 33.52°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 87.26°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 85.92°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WBlack Creek — 34.68°N, 78.23°WBlack Creek — 35.23°N, 77.79°WBlack Creek — 35.22°N, 77.68°WBlack Creek — 35.46°N, 77.68°WFalun de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°ETejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WTejon — 34.96°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.92°N, 118.92°WTejon — 46.45°N, 122.95°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.83°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 32.08°N, 88.22°WTuscahoma — 31.33°N, 85.58°WTuscahoma — 31.85°N, 87.95°WTuscahoma — 31.85°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°W

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The named rock units Glycymeris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 388 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 340 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glycymeris and its relatives

Miocene

Where Glycymeris and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,514 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,154 sites for Glycymeris, and this reads 240 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

501 references

Each of the 1,824 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. 489 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 content3

Picture of Glycymeris

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Glycymeris glycymeris · USNM:IZ:USNM 199801

3D model

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

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGlycymeridinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Da Costa 1778