Mactromeris acutirostrata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MactromerisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Mactridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Mactridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Mactridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Mactromeris acutirostrata on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Mactromeris acutirostrata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mactromeris acutirostrata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Mactromeris acutirostrata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
103 taxa- Calyptraea diegoana4 sites
- Mactromeris merriami4 sites
- Schedocardia brewerii4 sites
- Venericardia4 sites
- Naticidae3 sites
- Spirocrypta pileum3 sites
- Amaurellina moragai2 sites
- Bonellitia2 sites
- Callista (Costacallista) hornii2 sites
- Caryocorbula hornii2 sites
- Corbula2 sites
- Crassatella2 sites
- Ficus remondii2 sites
- Olivella mathewsonii2 sites
- Pitar uvasana2 sites
- Polinices hornii2 sites
- Pseudoperissolax blakei2 sites
- Ranellina pilsbryi2 sites
- Rimella2 sites
- Solen2 sites
- Strepsidura ficus2 sites
- Tellina (Phyllodina) lebecki2 sites
- Tellinidae2 sites
- Turritella uvasana sargeanti2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Mactromeris acutirostrata, 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
2 references- Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Eocene Tejon Formation, western Tehachapi and San Emigdio mountains, California5
- Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon1
Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Mactromeris acutirostrata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mactromeris acutirostrata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mactromeris acutirostrata 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 itMactromeris through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Packard 1916)