Neopycnodonte cochlear

Neopycnodonte cochlear is a species of marine bivalve molluscs belonging to the family Gryphaeidae.

Neopycnodonte cochlear

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NeopycnodontePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 19 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 19 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 10 of 19 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.7–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–785 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

19 occurrences of Neopycnodonte cochlear on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

19 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

Termofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EMeroui — 36.06°N, 0.70°EKattendijk — 51.25°N, 4.28°EArenas de Huelva — 37.32°N, 6.67°W

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The named rock units Neopycnodonte cochlear has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neopycnodonte cochlear and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Neopycnodonte cochlear and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

780 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Neopycnodonte cochlear, 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

16 references

Each of the 19 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. 4 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 content2

Picture of Neopycnodonte cochlear

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Neopycnodonte cochlear · USNM:IZ:USNM 516571

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itNeopycnodonte through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Poli 1795)