Leptomya
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SemelidaePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Semelidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Semelidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Semelidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 118 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Leptomya on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
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The named rock units Leptomya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Leptomya and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Leptomya and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
120 taxa- Arca trapezia2 sites
- Callista planatella2 sites
- Circe (Circe) scripta2 sites
- Clypeomorus bifasciata2 sites
- Dendostrea folium2 sites
- Diala lauta2 sites
- Diplodonta2 sites
- Dosinia2 sites
- Dosinia sculpta2 sites
- Elachorbis2 sites
- Fragum2 sites
- Fragum erugatum2 sites
- Marcia2 sites
- Rhinoclavis bituberculata2 sites
- Rhinoclavis fasciata2 sites
- Scissulina dispar2 sites
- Septifer bilocularis2 sites
- Tapes dorsatus2 sites
- Thalotia2 sites
- Tonganaella perna2 sites
- Acrosterigma1 site
- Acteocina1 site
- Alaba1 site
- Anachis (Zafra)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Leptomya, 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
2 references- Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal events and history along the western margin of Australia1
- A Pleistocene molluscan fauna with Anadara trapezia (Deshayes) (Bivalvia: Arcoida) from the Dampier Limestone of Shark Bay, Western Australia1
Each of the 2 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.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Leptomya
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Leptomya 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSemelidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adams 1864