Saccella maxwelli

Saccella maxwelli

Javier · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
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 1.3 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1.63 Mya and 340 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 1 of 1 occurrencePleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 1 occurrence1.6–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–994 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences994 ka–923 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences923 ka–852 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences852 ka–781 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences781 ka–710 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences710 ka–639 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences639 ka–568 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences568 ka–497 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences497 ka–426 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426 ka–355 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355 ka–284 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.13 Mya0 Mya

1 occurrence of Saccella maxwelli on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

1 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

1 formation

Tainui Shell Bed — 39.95°S, 174.98°E

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The named rock units Saccella maxwelli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Saccella maxwelli and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Saccella maxwelli and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Saccella maxwelli, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Saccella maxwelli

Source
GBIF
Credit
Javier
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Saccella maxwelli 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 itSaccella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Beu 2006)