Marcia (Mercimonia) bunkeri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MercimoniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Marcia (Mercimonia) bunkeri 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
16 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
5 formations
- Flournoy Formation · Umpqua Group6
- Roseburg Formation · Umpqua Group3
- Scripps Formation · La Jolla Group2
- Tyee Formation1
- Llajas Formation1
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The named rock units Marcia (Mercimonia) bunkeri 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.
Marcia (Mercimonia) bunkeri and its relatives
EoceneWhere Marcia (Mercimonia) bunkeri and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
148 taxa- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum9 sites
- Ficopsis remondii7 sites
- Tejonia moragai7 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana6 sites
- Macrocallista (Costacallista) conradiana meganosensis6 sites
- Brachiodontes5 sites
- Caryocorbula parilis5 sites
- Cryptochorda (Cryptochorda) californica5 sites
- Eocernina hannibali5 sites
- Schedocardia brewerii5 sites
- Turritella uvasana hendoni5 sites
- Cylichnina tantilla4 sites
- Ectinochilus (Macilentos) macilentus4 sites
- Glycymerita sagittata4 sites
- Venericardia (Pacificor) aragonia4 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa3 sites
- Gari (Gobraeus) hornii umpquaensis3 sites
- Pachycrommium clarki3 sites
- Phalium (Semicassis) tuberculiformis3 sites
- Pitar uvasana coquillensis3 sites
- Pitar uvasana duprei3 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis3 sites
- Pseudoperissolax blakei3 sites
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Marcia (Mercimonia) bunkeri, 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
5 references- Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon10
- Eocene molluscan stages and their correlation, San Diego area, California2
- An Eocene invertebrate fauna from the La Jolla Quadrangle, California2
- Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California1
- Geology and coal resources of the Coos Bay Quadrangle, Oregon1
Each of the 16 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
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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 itMercimonia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hanna 1927)