Mercenaria langdoni

Mercenaria langdoni

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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 2.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Miocene — about 9 of 9 occurrencesMiocene21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15.98 Mya13.82 Mya20.9 Mya11.1 Mya

9 occurrences of Mercenaria langdoni 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

9 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

Chipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.06°N, 84.49°WChipola — 30.44°N, 84.28°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WOak Grove — 30.90°N, 84.58°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°W

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

Mercenaria langdoni and its relatives

Miocene

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

Found in the same rock

174 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Mercenaria langdoni, 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 9 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 langdoni

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

No 3D scan of Mercenaria langdoni 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.

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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. (Dall 1900)