Macoma (Macoma) golikovi

Matt Lemay, Heather Earle, Karen Cram, Suzie Christoffel · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- Macoma (Macoma)PBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Tellinidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Tellinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellinidae
- 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.
18 occurrences of Macoma (Macoma) golikovi 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
18 occurrences- Oligocene6%
- Miocene67%
- Pliocene17%
- Pleistocene11%
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
12 formations
- Tachilni Formation3
- Narrow Cape Formation3
- Topsy Formation2
- Late Pleistocene terrace Formation1
- Etolonskaya Formation1
- Limimtevayamskaya Formation1
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The named rock units Macoma (Macoma) golikovi 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.
Macoma (Macoma) golikovi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Macoma (Macoma) golikovi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
183 taxa- Yoldia (Cnesterium) aeolica6 sites
- Cyclocardia4 sites
- Mactromeris polynyma4 sites
- Mya (Mya) truncata4 sites
- Siliqua alta4 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) castrensis3 sites
- Chlamys (Chlamys) cosibensis3 sites
- Clinocardium3 sites
- Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum3 sites
- Conchocele bisecta3 sites
- Crassicardia crassidens3 sites
- Hiatella arctica3 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) calcarea3 sites
- Musculus niger3 sites
- Nuculana pernula3 sites
- Panomya3 sites
- Spisula3 sites
- Yoldia (Yoldia)3 sites
- Acila (Truncacila)2 sites
- Astarte (Tridonta)2 sites
- Beringius2 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Buccinum2 sites
- Chlamys (Chlamys) karaginskiensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Macoma (Macoma) golikovi, 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
4 references- Bivalve seashells of western North America9
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.4
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of Sakhalin and Kurile Islands4
- Late Pleistocene marine resources from the Bering Glacier Foreland and human coastal migration in the northern Gulf of Alaska region1
Each of the 18 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 content2

Picture of Macoma (Macoma) golikovi
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Matt Lemay, Heather Earle, Karen Cram, Suzie Christoffel
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Macoma calcarea · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:71115
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMacoma (Macoma) through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Scarlato and Kafanov 1988)