Lucinoma taylori

Uncredited · 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- Sits inside
- LucinomaPBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinoma
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Lucinoma
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinoma
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Lucinoma taylori on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
- Ihungia Formation8
- Nihotupu Formation · Waitakere Group1
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The named rock units Lucinoma taylori has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lucinoma taylori and its relatives
MioceneWhere Lucinoma taylori and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Bathytoma1 site
- Falsicolus1 site
- Gemmula1 site
- Pseudarchaster motutaraensis1 site
- Saccella1 site
- Taniella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Lucinoma taylori, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- The Geology of the Dannevirke Subdivision8
- A new early Miocene Pseudarchaster (Asteroida: Echinodermata) from New Zealand1
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 Lucinoma taylori
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Lucinoma taylori 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 itLucinoma through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Powell 1935