Glycymeris ovata

Searched as Pectunculus ovatus. The Paleobiology Database treats Glycymeris ovata as the accepted name.

Glycymeris ovata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GlycymerisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Glycymeris
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Glycymeris
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Glycymeris
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Glycymerididae

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 16 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 16 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesPliocene — about 6 of 16 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 16 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–126 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.0–4.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.5–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences121.4 Mya129 ka135 Mya0 Mya

16 occurrences of Glycymeris ovata 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

16 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

8 formations

Pisco — 15.61°S, 74.63°WPampa del Palo Terrace — 17.58°S, 71.17°WPongo — 15.49°S, 74.75°WPongo — 15.53°S, 74.73°WLomas Terrace — 30.33°S, 74.75°WSan Juan Terrace — 15.33°S, 75.17°WHuacllaco — 15.90°S, 74.17°WLa Portada — 23.40°S, 70.53°WStony Creek — 40.17°N, 122.69°W

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The named rock units Glycymeris ovata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glycymeris ovata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Glycymeris ovata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

109 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Glycymeris ovata, 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

10 references

Each of the 16 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 Glycymeris ovata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Glycymeris ovata was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itGlycymeris through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stanton 1895)