Mactromeris ramonensis

Mactromeris ramonensis

Smithe, Warren · CC0 · 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
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 least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesEocene — about 21 of 38 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 17 of 38 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 38 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 5 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 5 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence37.71 Mya27.3 Mya56.7 Mya22.4 Mya

38 occurrences of Mactromeris ramonensis 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

38 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

7 formations

San Emigdio — 35.06°N, 119.18°WSan Emigdio — 34.92°N, 119.18°WPleito — 34.99°N, 119.19°WTemblor — 35.50°N, 119.78°WTemblor — 35.43°N, 119.84°WPoul Creek — 60.07°N, 142.27°WPoul Creek — 60.04°N, 141.88°WYakataga — 60.07°N, 142.34°WPysht — 48.17°N, 123.94°WBlakeley — 47.95°N, 122.07°W

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The named rock units Mactromeris ramonensis 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.

Mactromeris ramonensis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Mactromeris ramonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

137 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Mactromeris ramonensis, 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

6 references

Each of the 38 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 Mactromeris ramonensis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Smithe, Warren
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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)