Mercenaria cuneata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MercenariaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Mercenaria
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Mercenaria
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Mercenaria
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 8.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 13.82 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 16 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.9–9.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.6–9.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.9–8.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.6–8.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.3–8.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.7–7.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.4–7.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.4–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–5.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.8–5.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14.3 Mya4.8 Mya

16 occurrences of Mercenaria cuneata 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

16 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

4 formations

Choptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChoptank — 38.45°N, 76.46°WChoptank — 38.36°N, 76.48°WChoptank — 38.17°N, 76.80°WSt Marys — 38.16°N, 76.45°WSt Marys — 38.26°N, 76.42°WSt Marys — 38.27°N, 76.15°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WCalvert — 38.17°N, 76.80°WSaint Marys — 38.18°N, 76.45°W

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

Mercenaria cuneata and its relatives

Miocene

Where Mercenaria cuneata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

183 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Mercenaria cuneata, 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

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Mercenaria cuneata 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 Mercenaria cuneata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mercenaria cuneata 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 through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1869