Propeamussium interradiatum

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PropeamussiumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Propeamussium
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Propeamussium
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Propeamussium
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Propeamussiidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 7.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
11 occurrences of Propeamussium interradiatum on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 formations
- Roseburg Formation · Umpqua Group3
- Capay Formation2
- Flournoy Formation · Umpqua Group1
- Tyee Formation1
- Cozy Dell Formation1
- Martinez Formation1
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The named rock units Propeamussium interradiatum 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.
Propeamussium interradiatum and its relatives
EoceneWhere Propeamussium interradiatum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
130 taxa- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum5 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa4 sites
- Ancilla (Spirancilla) gabbi4 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana4 sites
- Ficopsis remondii4 sites
- Caryocorbula parilis3 sites
- Cylichnina tantilla3 sites
- Gari (Gobraeus) hornii3 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis3 sites
- Turritella buwaldana coosensis3 sites
- Cardita2 sites
- Crassatella uvasana matthewsoni2 sites
- Glycymeris (Tucetona) fresnoensis2 sites
- Latirus roseburgensis2 sites
- Loxotrema turritum2 sites
- Macrocallista (Costacallista) conradiana meganosensis2 sites
- Mitra cretacea2 sites
- Nitidavenus tejonensis2 sites
- Nuculanidae2 sites
- Pseudoperissolax blakei2 sites
- Solena (Eosolen) coosensis2 sites
- Tornatellaea vacavillensis2 sites
- Turricula2 sites
- Turritella uvasana hendoni2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Propeamussium interradiatum, 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- Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon5
- The Capay Middle Eocene of Northern California2
- Macropaleontology of Eocene marine rocks, upper Sespe Creek area, Ventura County, southern California1
- A fauna from the Middle Eocene shales near Vacaville, California1
- Stratigraphy and fauna of the Tejon Eocene of California1
- Tertiary and Quaternary pectens of California1
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 Propeamussium interradiatum
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Propeamussium interradiatum 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 itPropeamussium through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1869)