Pseudamussium

Pseudamussium

Linnaeus, 1771 · CC0 · via Wikidata/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
PalliolinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 335 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 129 ka.

Devonian — about 0 of 88 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 7 of 88 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 88 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 88 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 88 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 88 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 88 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 88 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 88 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 88 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 88 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 88 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 88 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 88 occurrencesMiocene — about 50 of 88 occurrencesPliocene — about 16 of 88 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 88 occurrences366–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–342 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences342–329 Mya — about 4 occurrences329–317 Mya — about 2 occurrences268–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence207–195 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences195–183 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences146–134 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–12 Mya — about 35 occurrences12–0 Mya — about 37 occurrences335.9 Mya774 ka366 Mya0 Mya

88 occurrences of Pseudamussium on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

88 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

23 formations

Kattendijk — 51.25°N, 4.28°ELillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°EBreda — 52.15°N, 6.61°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°ELomita Marl — 33.77°N, 118.31°WDiest — 51.19°N, 4.46°EBerada — 51.10°N, 5.80°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°EGram — 55.28°N, 9.00°EBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.43°EDeist — 51.19°N, 4.46°ETop Hosie Shale — 56.62°N, 3.85°WUpper Borland Shales — 54.00°N, 2.83°WRoeburndale — 54.08°N, 2.47°WNicosia — 35.10°N, 33.15°EKourtes — 35.20°N, 25.10°ECook Mountain — 32.00°N, 88.72°WSaltrio — 45.88°N, 8.92°EDeurne Sands — 51.22°N, 4.45°ESooke — 48.52°N, 124.39°WBellavally — 54.42°N, 7.86°WCarraun Shale — 54.42°N, 7.86°WDergvone Shale — 54.42°N, 7.86°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°W

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The named rock units Pseudamussium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudamussium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pseudamussium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

867 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Pseudamussium, 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

36 references

Each of the 88 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. 24 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 Pseudamussium

Credit
Linnaeus, 1771
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pseudamussium 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 itPalliolinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mörch 1853)