Macoma meroensis

Macoma meroensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MacomaPBDB
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 6.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 4 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33.9 Mya27.3 Mya38.2 Mya22.5 Mya

4 occurrences of Macoma meroensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

4 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

3 formations

Mancora — 5.20°S, 80.63°WPosojra — 2.70°S, 80.25°WHeath — 5.00°S, 80.00°W

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The named rock units Macoma meroensis 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 meroensis and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Macoma meroensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

49 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Macoma meroensis, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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 Macoma meroensis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Macoma meroensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Olsson 1931