Marama (Marama) ovata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Marama (Marama)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 18.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 15.9 Mya.
5 occurrences of Marama (Marama) ovata 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 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Rifle Butts Formation · Kaierero Group2
- Mount Brown Formation1
- Waikari Formation1
- Otekaike Limestone Formation · Otiake Group1
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The named rock units Marama (Marama) ovata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Marama (Marama) ovata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Marama (Marama) ovata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Austrotoma2 sites
- Comitas2 sites
- Cucullaea2 sites
- Lentipecten hochstetteri2 sites
- Anomia trigonopsis1 site
- Austrofusus1 site
- Austrofusus (Neocola)1 site
- Baryspira robusta1 site
- Bonellitia1 site
- Coluzea1 site
- Eumarcia (Atamarcia) sulcifera1 site
- Friginatica1 site
- Gari1 site
- Inglisella1 site
- Limopsis zitteli1 site
- Maoricolpus1 site
- Maoricrypta1 site
- Maorivetia1 site
- Minormalletia simia1 site
- Nassarius (Hima)1 site
- Neilo1 site
- Notocorbula humerosa1 site
- Nucula1 site
- Penion marwicki1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Marama (Marama) ovata, 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 referencesEach 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 Marama (Marama) ovata 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 Marama (Marama) ovata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Marama (Marama) ovata 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 itMarama (Marama) through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marwick 1927