Dhondtichlamys

Searched as Microchlamys. The Paleobiology Database treats Dhondtichlamys as the accepted name.

A picture published with the record for Dhondtichlamys. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
PalliolinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pectinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 135 of 156 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 20 of 156 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 156 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 156 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 28 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 35 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 35 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 28 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 9 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 5 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72.2 Mya37.71 Mya85 Mya33 Mya

156 occurrences of Dhondtichlamys 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

156 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

20 formations

Prairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.72°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 33.46°N, 88.79°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 32.73°N, 88.30°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.63°N, 88.22°WPrairie Bluff — 32.57°N, 88.14°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WTuscahoma — 31.70°N, 84.85°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°WTuscahoma — 31.92°N, 87.52°WTuscahoma — 31.84°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 31.61°N, 85.05°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 30.30°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.75°N, 97.88°WCorsicana Marl — 29.72°N, 97.90°WCorsicana Marl — 29.60°N, 98.03°WCorsicana Marl — 29.44°N, 98.56°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMaastricht — 51.00°N, 6.00°ESandy Hook — 40.37°N, 74.12°WSandy Hook — 40.41°N, 74.00°WOwl Creek — 34.45°N, 89.00°WOwl Creek — 34.47°N, 88.98°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°EMaastrichtian chalk — 56.97°N, 9.68°ENavesink — 40.31°N, 74.22°WNavesink — 40.36°N, 74.12°WEginsai — 52.44°N, 64.61°EProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WTinton — 40.30°N, 74.10°WNacatoch Sand — 33.61°N, 95.05°Wmarly chalk — 51.28°N, 21.90°EGreensand — 51.33°N, 21.97°EMount Laurel — 40.12°N, 74.55°WAhlen — 51.72°N, 7.93°EBlack Mingo — 33.39°N, 79.74°WCorsicana — 29.47°N, 98.29°W

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The named rock units Dhondtichlamys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 77 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dhondtichlamys and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Dhondtichlamys and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

981 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 102 sites for Dhondtichlamys, 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

23 references

Each of the 156 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. 11 further references are not listed. 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 Dhondtichlamys

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sobetski 1977