Myrtea (Myrtea) taffana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Myrtea (Myrtea)PBDB
- Diet
- photosymbioticPBDB, for Myrtea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Myrtea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Myrtea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Myrtea (Myrtea) taffana on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Myrtea (Myrtea) taffana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Myrtea (Myrtea) taffana and its relatives
EoceneWhere Myrtea (Myrtea) taffana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
89 taxa- Corbula (Caryocorbula) dickersoni2 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata2 sites
- Molopophorus cretaceus2 sites
- Priscoficus cowlitzensis2 sites
- Spirocrypta pileum2 sites
- Acutostrea idriaensis1 site
- Ameranella kewi1 site
- Architectonica hornii1 site
- Benoistia californica1 site
- Bonellitia1 site
- Callianassa incerta1 site
- Callista (Costacallista) soledadensis1 site
- Calorebama dilleri kirbyi1 site
- Calyptraea diegoana1 site
- Cantharus (Calicantharus) californicus1 site
- Cantharus (Endopachychilus) suturalis1 site
- Cantharus (Eocantharus) cowlitzensis1 site
- Conus (Hemiconus) aegilops1 site
- Conus hornii1 site
- Corbicula arnoldi1 site
- Corbicula oldroydi1 site
- Crassatella uvasana1 site
- Crassatella weaveri1 site
- Dentalium (Laevidentalium) lighti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Myrtea (Myrtea) taffana, 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
4 references- Paleoecology of a protected biotope from the Eocene Mission Valley Formation, San Diego County, California1
- Fauna from the Markley Formation (Upper Eocene) on Pleasant Creek, California1
- An Eocene invertebrate fauna from the La Jolla Quadrangle, California1
- Stratigraphy and fauna of the Tejon Eocene of California1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Myrtea (Myrtea) taffana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Myrtea (Myrtea) taffana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Myrtea (Myrtea) taffana was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itMyrtea (Myrtea) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dickerson 1916)