Propeamussium

Propeamussium is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the order Ostreoida.

Propeamussium

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
PropeamussiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Propeamussiidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 220 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 218 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 218 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 25 of 218 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 28 of 218 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 6 of 218 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 218 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 34 of 218 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 65 of 218 occurrencesEocene — about 23 of 218 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 13 of 218 occurrencesMiocene — about 11 of 218 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 218 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 218 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences218–209 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences209–201 Mya — about 5 occurrences201–193 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 1 occurrence185–177 Mya — about 17 occurrences177–169 Mya — about 31 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 3 occurrences161–153 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences153–145 Mya — about 5 occurrences145–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–121 Mya — about 2 occurrences121–113 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences113–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–81 Mya — about 14 occurrences81–73 Mya — about 8 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 23 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 52 occurrences56–48 Mya — about 9 occurrences48–40 Mya — about 8 occurrences40–32 Mya — about 8 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 10 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 7 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences227.3 Mya7.246 Mya242 Mya0 Mya

218 occurrences of Propeamussium on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

218 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

70 formations

Kincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 30.80°N, 96.95°WKincaid — 31.45°N, 96.81°WKincaid — 31.05°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 30.11°N, 97.32°WKincaid — 30.23°N, 97.52°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WPorters Creek — 31.97°N, 87.20°WPorters Creek — 32.23°N, 88.00°WPorters Creek — 32.02°N, 87.43°WPorters Creek — 31.02°N, 87.43°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.28°WPorters Creek — 31.92°N, 87.08°WPorters Creek — 34.75°N, 92.29°WLellinge Greensand — 55.67°N, 12.58°ELellinge Greensand — 55.48°N, 10.47°ELadd — 33.75°N, 117.68°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.64°WPhantom Creek — 53.38°N, 132.26°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°Eopoka — 51.15°N, 21.72°Eopoka — 51.13°N, 21.77°Eopoka — 51.05°N, 21.80°EManuel Creek — 67.97°N, 136.42°WManuel Creek — 67.52°N, 137.46°WOzirovo — 42.77°N, 24.71°EOzirovo — 43.25°N, 23.41°ENayband — 32.38°N, 57.43°ENayband — 32.50°N, 57.35°EBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WBlakeley — 48.22°N, 124.10°WMaude — 53.42°N, 132.30°WBelmont — 12.50°N, 61.44°WCollazo Shale — 18.34°N, 66.99°WQoimaco — 33.77°N, 91.33°EQoimaco — 33.95°N, 91.23°EQoimaco — 33.25°N, 90.50°ERoseburg — 43.02°N, 123.93°WRoseburg — 43.27°N, 123.45°WRoseburg — 43.23°N, 123.37°WManual Creek — 67.98°N, 136.38°WLincolnshire Limestone — 53.50°N, 0.33°WAstoria — 46.19°N, 123.83°WKozlovskaya — 54.50°N, 161.00°EKylanskaya — 59.92°N, 165.00°EGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WWills Point — 30.09°N, 97.50°WWills Point — 29.42°N, 98.57°WPierre Shale — 40.06°N, 106.39°WKeasey — 46.00°N, 123.26°W

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The named rock units Propeamussium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 46 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Propeamussium and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Propeamussium and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

2,071 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 175 sites for Propeamussium, 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

85 references

Each of the 218 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. 73 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 content1

Picture of Propeamussium

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Propeamussium 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

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 itPropeamussiidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Gregorio 1884)