Phacoides
Searched as Phacoides actulineatus. The Paleobiology Database treats Phacoides as the accepted name.
Phacoides is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Lucinidae.

Marie HENNION · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
- LucininaePBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Phacoides on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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.
Phacoides and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Phacoides and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
2,581 taxa- Nuculana38 sites
- Corbula31 sites
- Cymbophora31 sites
- Cyprimeria30 sites
- Turritella29 sites
- Tellina27 sites
- Glycymeris25 sites
- Nucula24 sites
- Anomia argentaria22 sites
- Crassatella21 sites
- Cyclorisma21 sites
- Legumen ellipticum21 sites
- Ostrea21 sites
- Crassatella vadosa20 sites
- Granocardium20 sites
- Syncyclonema20 sites
- Striarca19 sites
- Veniella conradi19 sites
- Cardium18 sites
- Dentalium18 sites
- Anomia17 sites
- Cadulus17 sites
- Crenella serica17 sites
- Cubitostrea tecticosta17 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 161 sites for Phacoides, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Phacoides
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Marie HENNION
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Phacoides 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Phacoides”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLucininae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blainville 1825