Mactrotoma californica

Mactrotoma californica

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
California surfclamPBDB
Sits inside
StandellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Standella
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Standella
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Standella
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 2 of 20 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene — about 18 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences23.04 Mya129 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

20 occurrences of Mactrotoma californica on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

20 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

6 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WSan Pedro — 33.85°N, 118.06°WPacific Muck — 8.93°N, 79.56°WPoul Creek — 60.04°N, 141.88°WYakataga — 60.07°N, 142.34°W

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The named rock units Mactrotoma californica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mactrotoma californica and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Mactrotoma californica and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,004 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Mactrotoma californica, 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

16 references

Each of the 20 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Mactrotoma californica

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No 3D scan of Mactrotoma californica 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 itStandella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1837)