Phygraea lincolnensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Pycnodonte (Phygraea)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pycnodonte
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pycnodonte
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pycnodonte
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
11 occurrences of Phygraea lincolnensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
11 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.
Found in
4 formations
- Pleito Formation · San Lorenzo Group5
- Lincoln Creek Formation2
- Stepovak Formation1
- Gries Ranch Formation1
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The named rock units Phygraea lincolnensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Phygraea lincolnensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Phygraea lincolnensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
137 taxa- Dosinia (Dosinia) whitneyi3 sites
- Acteon chehalisensis2 sites
- Antiplanes thurstonensis2 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana2 sites
- Cancellaria washingtonensis2 sites
- Crassatella lincolnensis2 sites
- Crenella porterensis2 sites
- Glycimeris chehalisensis2 sites
- Katherinella arnoldi2 sites
- Lucinoma acutilineata2 sites
- Mesalia lincolnensis2 sites
- Molopophorus lincolnensis2 sites
- Mytilus (Mytilus) arnoldi2 sites
- Nemocardium lincolnensis2 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis2 sites
- Pandora washingtonensis2 sites
- Pitar (Pitar) dalli2 sites
- Polinices lincolnensis2 sites
- Polinices washingtonensis2 sites
- Scaphander washingtonensis2 sites
- Solen lincolnensis2 sites
- Solena (Plectosolen) conradi2 sites
- Spirotropis dickersoni2 sites
- Tellina (Moerella) lincolnensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Phygraea lincolnensis, 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
6 references- The San Lorenzo Group of the San Emigdio region, California5
- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington2
- Paleocene and Eocene oysters from the West Coast of the United States: Revision of named species and recognition of new species1
- Age and depositional environment of the lower part of Escalante Formation, western Vancouver Island, British Columbia1
- Geology of the Alaska Peninsula-island arc and continental margin (Part 1)1
- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington1
Each of the 11 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 Phygraea lincolnensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Phygraea lincolnensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 itPycnodonte (Phygraea) through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Weaver 1916)