Mercenaria campechiensis rileyi

Mercenaria campechiensis rileyi

Maria Krausmann · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
Mercenaria campechiensisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Mercenaria
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Mercenaria
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Mercenaria
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 20 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 20 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 6 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence549 ka–0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13.82 Mya2.58 Mya16.5 Mya0 Mya

20 occurrences of Mercenaria campechiensis rileyi on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

20 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

6 formations

Waccamaw — 34.23°N, 77.94°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.50°N, 79.11°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.29°N, 78.51°WWaccamaw — 33.63°N, 79.16°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.96°WYorktown — 36.44°N, 77.10°WYorktown — 35.54°N, 77.67°WYorktown — 35.51°N, 77.62°WYorktown — 35.15°N, 77.14°WDuplin — 35.00°N, 78.32°WDuplin — 34.62°N, 79.01°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WDuplin — 34.50°N, 79.11°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WCalvert — 38.63°N, 76.51°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°W

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The named rock units Mercenaria campechiensis rileyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Mercenaria campechiensis rileyi and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Mercenaria campechiensis rileyi and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

360 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Mercenaria campechiensis rileyi, 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

7 references

Each of the 20 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 content1

Picture of Mercenaria campechiensis rileyi

Source
GBIF
Credit
Maria Krausmann
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Mercenaria campechiensis rileyi 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 itMercenaria campechiensis through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1838)