Raetomya
No picture of Raetomya was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Raetomya, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RaetomyidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Myoidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Myoidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Myoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
21 occurrences of Raetomya 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
21 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
11 formations
- Ameki Formation · Bende-Ameki Group4
- Quimbriz Formation4
- Santa Rita Formation3
- Teberemt, Tamaguélelt, Continental Terminal Formation3
- Umm al-Rua’us Formation1
- Lower Sandy Shales Formation1
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The named rock units Raetomya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Raetomya and its relatives
EoceneWhere Raetomya and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
243 taxa- Neverita6 sites
- Cardium5 sites
- Pitar5 sites
- Protonoetia nigeriensis5 sites
- Amekichilus suturocostatum4 sites
- Bonellitia evulsa4 sites
- Cardita costaenodulosis4 sites
- Cominella douvillei4 sites
- Conospirus parisiensis4 sites
- Crepidula falconeri4 sites
- Cyrtulotibia unidigitata4 sites
- Eovolva nigeriensis4 sites
- Fossularca africana4 sites
- Loxocardium obliquum4 sites
- Macrocallista4 sites
- Nuculana4 sites
- Ostrea marginidentata4 sites
- Peronaea nigeriensis4 sites
- Poirieria calcitrapa4 sites
- Rectangularca africana4 sites
- Spisula semisulcata4 sites
- Stellaxis bicingulata4 sites
- Strepsidura spirata4 sites
- Sulcobuccinum kitsoni4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Raetomya, 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
8 references- Macroscopic fauna of the Quimbriz (Eocene) Formation on the Lucolo River, Angola5
- Stratigraphy and Paleobiology of the Upper Cretaceous - Lower Paleogene Sediments from the Trans-Saharan Seaway in Mali4
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel4
- Eocene Mollusca from Nigeria4
- Geology, fruits, seeds, and vertebrates (?Sirenia) from the Kaninah Formation (Middle Eocene), Republic of Yemen1
- Eocene Mollusks from Curacao, West Indies1
- Paleontological studies of some Saudi Arabian lower Tertiary fossils1
- The age of the Hannatoma mollusk fauna of South America; a symposium1
Each of the 21 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 content0
No picture of Raetomya was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Raetomya, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Raetomya 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRaetomyidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newton 1919