Mactromya quadrata
No picture of Mactromya quadrata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Mactromya quadrata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MactromyaPBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinoidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Lucinoidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 152.21 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 149.2 Mya.
9 occurrences of Mactromya quadrata on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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- Late Jurassic100%
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.
Mactromya quadrata and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Mactromya quadrata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
107 taxa- Mytilus jurensis5 sites
- Ceratomya excentrica4 sites
- Lucina4 sites
- Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus4 sites
- Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei4 sites
- Xestosina suprajurensis4 sites
- Arctica3 sites
- Homomya3 sites
- Inoperna perplicata3 sites
- Thracia incerta3 sites
- Actinostreon gregarea2 sites
- Ampullina2 sites
- Arca sublata2 sites
- Burgundia corrugata2 sites
- Ceratomyopsis striata2 sites
- Eopecten velatus2 sites
- Globularia hemisphaerica2 sites
- Harpagodes2 sites
- Integricardium bannesianum2 sites
- Lucina cecchii2 sites
- Monsardithyris ruspolii2 sites
- Myophorella2 sites
- Mytilus subpectinatus2 sites
- Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Mactromya quadrata, 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- Fossili Giurassici dell'Harar (Africa Orientale): Brachiopodi, Lamellibranchi e Gasteropodi [Jurassic fossils from Harar (Eastern Africa): brachiopods, lamellibranchs and gastropods]5
- Jurassic Bivalvia and Gastropoda from Tanganyika and Kenya4
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 content0
No picture of Mactromya quadrata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Mactromya quadrata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mactromya quadrata 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 itMactromya through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rollier 1913