Martesia

Martesia is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Pholadidae.

Martesia

Lozouet Pierre · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PholadidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
boringPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 170 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 76 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 76 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 76 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 76 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 20 of 76 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 15 of 76 occurrencesEocene — about 11 of 76 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 76 occurrencesMiocene — about 8 of 76 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 76 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 76 occurrences197–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–184 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184–177 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences177–171 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–118 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences118–111 Mya — about 3 occurrences111–105 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences98–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–85 Mya — about 4 occurrences85–79 Mya — about 4 occurrences79–72 Mya — about 6 occurrences72–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences66–59 Mya — about 10 occurrences59–52 Mya — about 5 occurrences52–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–33 Mya — about 7 occurrences33–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–6.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.6–0 Mya — about 16 occurrences170.9 Mya129 ka197 Mya0 Mya

76 occurrences of Martesia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

76 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

51 formations

Eugene — 44.05°N, 123.09°WEugene — 44.04°N, 123.04°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WKoranga Sandstone — 38.41°S, 177.31°ERipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.93°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WKincaid — 29.89°N, 97.67°WKincaid — 30.17°N, 97.52°WKincaid — 30.00°N, 97.69°WLogansport — 31.57°N, 93.55°WMeganos — 37.92°N, 121.77°WMeganos — 37.91°N, 121.74°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPawkowki — 49.10°N, 111.21°WPawkowki — 49.04°N, 111.21°WPanoche — 35.88°N, 120.10°WPanoche — 37.21°N, 121.22°WMungo River — 4.44°N, 9.49°EMungo River — 4.49°N, 9.50°EFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EMarshalltown — 39.54°N, 75.72°WRaritan — 40.30°N, 74.36°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WWoolwich and Reading — 51.52°N, 0.08°WCalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EPoudingue de Ciply — 50.42°N, 3.95°EMaastrichtian chalk — 56.97°N, 9.68°ERødvig — 56.97°N, 9.68°ESagavanirktok — 69.96°N, 144.77°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WJama — 0.18°S, 80.32°W

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The named rock units Martesia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Martesia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Martesia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,349 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Martesia, 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

51 references

Each of the 76 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. 39 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 content2

Picture of Martesia

Credit
Lozouet Pierre
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Martesia maloniana · USNM:PAL:USNM PAL29005

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. (Sowerby 1824)