Martesia clausa
No picture of Martesia clausa 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 Martesia clausa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MartesiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Martesia
- Life habit
- boringPBDB, for Martesia
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Martesia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
4 occurrences of Martesia clausa on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
4 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Martesia clausa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Martesia clausa and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Martesia clausa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
98 taxa- Acila (Truncacila) demessa4 sites
- Atira ornatissima4 sites
- Biplica obliqua4 sites
- Clisocolus dubius4 sites
- Cymbophora ashburnerii4 sites
- Pterotrigonia evansana4 sites
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus3 sites
- Anchura falciformis2 sites
- Baculites chicoensis2 sites
- Calva (Calva) varians2 sites
- Calva (Egelicalva) bowersiana2 sites
- Caryocorbula traskii2 sites
- Cucullaea (Cyphoxis) truncata2 sites
- Euspira2 sites
- Glycymerita veatchii2 sites
- Gyrodes (Sohlella) pacificus2 sites
- Gyrodes expansa2 sites
- Inoceramus subundatus2 sites
- Leda striatula2 sites
- Legumen ooides2 sites
- Metaplacenticeras californicum2 sites
- Metaplacenticeras pacificum2 sites
- Nonacteonina normalis2 sites
- Pentzia hilgardi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Martesia clausa, 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 references- Upper Cretaceous formations and faunas of southern California2
- Description of the Cretaceous fossils2
Each of the 4 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
Media content0
No picture of Martesia clausa 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 Martesia clausa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Martesia clausa 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 itMartesia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1864