Maorimactra acuminella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Mactra (Maorimactra)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Mactra
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Mactra
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Mactra
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–26 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 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.4–8.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.7–7.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.9–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.4–5.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.6–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23.04 Mya11.63 Mya27.8 Mya4.8 Mya

5 occurrences of Maorimactra acuminella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

5 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

1 formation

Naseby Greensand — 45.02°S, 170.12°E

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The named rock units Maorimactra acuminella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Maorimactra acuminella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Maorimactra acuminella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Maorimactra acuminella, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 5 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Maorimactra acuminella 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 Maorimactra acuminella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Maorimactra acuminella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Finlay 1930