Liocyma fluctuosa

Liocyma fluctuosa, or the wavy clam, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Veneridae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, from Greenland to Maine, and along the Pacific coast, from Alaska to British Columbia.

Liocyma fluctuosa

Eric A. Lazo-Wasem · CC0 · via Wikipedia/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
Sits inside
LiocymaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 20 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 12 of 20 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 20 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.6–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences27.3 Mya129 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

20 occurrences of Liocyma fluctuosa 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

20 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

16 formations

Narrow Cape — 56.54°N, 154.34°WKakertskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°ENarrrow Cape Formaton — 56.54°N, 154.34°WEnemtenskaya — 58.00°N, 158.00°EEtolonskaya — 58.42°N, 159.00°EGakkhinskaya — 58.25°N, 158.75°EIl'inskaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°EKuluvenskaya — 58.50°N, 159.17°ELimimtevayamskaya — 58.97°N, 163.92°ETyushevskaya — 54.50°N, 161.37°EPestrotsvetnaya — 58.75°N, 163.75°EBorskaya — 50.41°N, 143.74°ENutovskaya — 52.57°N, 143.23°EPomyrskaya — 54.16°N, 142.56°ESertunayskaya — 49.11°N, 142.90°EUranayskaya — 49.75°N, 142.83°E

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The named rock units Liocyma fluctuosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Liocyma fluctuosa and its relatives

Miocene

Where Liocyma fluctuosa and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

226 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Liocyma fluctuosa, 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

Each of the 20 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 Liocyma fluctuosa

Credit
Eric A. Lazo-Wasem
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Liocyma fluctuosa 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gould 1841)