Leukoma grata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- pleasing venus clamPBDB
- Sits inside
- LeukomaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Leukoma
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Leukoma
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Leukoma
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
9 occurrences of Leukoma grata 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
9 occurrences- Pliocene22%
- Pleistocene78%
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 Leukoma grata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Leukoma grata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Leukoma grata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
662 taxa- Chione californiensis7 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana5 sites
- Megapitaria squalida5 sites
- Anomia peruviana4 sites
- Arcopsis solida4 sites
- Argopecten ventricosus4 sites
- Diplodonta orbella4 sites
- Glans affinis californica4 sites
- Mexicardia procera4 sites
- Ostrea angelica4 sites
- Acanthina3 sites
- Antisabia panamensis3 sites
- Antropora tincta3 sites
- Bulla punctulata3 sites
- Chione undatella3 sites
- Chionopsis gnidia3 sites
- Crucibulum spinosum3 sites
- Dosinia ponderosa3 sites
- Hexaplex erythrostomus3 sites
- Laevicardium substriatum3 sites
- Modiolus capax3 sites
- Oliva3 sites
- Raeta undulata3 sites
- Saccostrea palmula3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Leukoma grata, 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
5 references- Marine Pleistocene Invertebrates from near Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico4
- Pliocene fossils from Baltra (South Seymour) Island, Galápagos Islands2
- Paleoecology and paleoenvironments of the Pleistocene deposits of Bahia la Choya (Gulf of California, Sonora, Mexico)1
- Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California1
- Additional notes on the Pliocene and Pleistocene fauna of the Turtle Bay area, Baja California, Mexico1
Each of the 9 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 Leukoma grata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Leukoma grata 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. (Say 1831)