Glycymeris nigeriensis
No picture of Glycymeris nigeriensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Glycymeris nigeriensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlycymerisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Glycymeris
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Glycymeris
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Glycymeris
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Glycymerididae
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Glycymeris nigeriensis 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
7 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
- Ameki Formation · Bende-Ameki Group7
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The named rock units Glycymeris nigeriensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Glycymeris nigeriensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Glycymeris nigeriensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Cardita costaenodulosis7 sites
- Crepidula falconeri7 sites
- Eovolva nigeriensis7 sites
- Fossularca africana7 sites
- Ispharina sulcifera7 sites
- Protonoetia nigeriensis7 sites
- Stellaxis bicingulata7 sites
- Sulcobuccinum kitsoni7 sites
- Volutospina conicoturrita7 sites
- Amekichilus suturocostatum6 sites
- Conospirus parisiensis6 sites
- Cyrtulotibia unidigitata6 sites
- Phacoides eaglesomei6 sites
- Strepsidura spirata6 sites
- Africoterebellum elongatum5 sites
- Bonellitia evulsa5 sites
- Cominella douvillei5 sites
- Cordiopsis incrassata5 sites
- Hilda turriculata5 sites
- Poirieria calcitrapa5 sites
- Sinum clathratum5 sites
- Surcula africana5 sites
- Tugurium nigeriense5 sites
- Turritella mauryana5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Glycymeris nigeriensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 7 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Glycymeris nigeriensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Glycymeris nigeriensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glycymeris nigeriensis 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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What may have been alongside itGlycymeris through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newton 1922