Mercenaria druidi

Mercenaria druidi

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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 least 2.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 10 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.8–9.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.4–9.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.0–8.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.6–8.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.2–7.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.4–7.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.0–6.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.6–6.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.2–5.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.8–5.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.4–5.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.3–1.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.9–1.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.5–1.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.1–669 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.333 Mya2.58 Mya12.1 Mya274 ka

11 occurrences of Mercenaria druidi on record. 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

11 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

3 formations

Eastover — 37.22°N, 76.93°WEastover — 36.44°N, 77.10°WEastover — 37.79°N, 76.72°WEastover — 37.17°N, 76.77°WEastover — 37.82°N, 76.75°WEastover — 37.69°N, 76.97°WLas Cahobas — 18.51°N, 72.27°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°W

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

Found in the same rock

67 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Mercenaria druidi, 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

3 references

Each of the 11 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 druidi

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mercenaria druidi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itMercenaria through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ward 1992