Saccella catasarca
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SaccellaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Saccella
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Saccella
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Saccella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculanidae
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Saccella catasarca 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
10 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
4 formations
- Lisbon Formation3
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group3
- Nanjemoy Formation2
- Weches Formation · Caliborne Group2
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The named rock units Saccella catasarca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Saccella catasarca and its relatives
EoceneWhere Saccella catasarca and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
262 taxa- Caryocorbula deusseni8 sites
- Anthozoa7 sites
- Bivalvia7 sites
- Cadulus7 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta7 sites
- Cubitostrea sellaeformis7 sites
- Gastropoda7 sites
- Sinum7 sites
- Atrina6 sites
- Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella6 sites
- Calorhadia semen6 sites
- Cavilinga pomilia6 sites
- Dentalium6 sites
- Naticidae6 sites
- Pachecoa decisa6 sites
- Polinices6 sites
- Callista (Callista) perovata5 sites
- Calorhadia bella5 sites
- Ficus5 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis5 sites
- Retusa galba5 sites
- Turritella nasuta5 sites
- Venericardia (Venericor) densata5 sites
- Abra nitens4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Saccella catasarca, 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
3 references- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs7
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals2
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
Each of the 10 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
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No picture of Saccella catasarca 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 Saccella catasarca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Saccella catasarca 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 itSaccella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.