Saccella semiteres

No picture of Saccella semiteres 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 semiteres, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 39.1 Mya to 18.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 42.6 Mya to 15.9 Mya.

Eocene — about 7 of 8 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesMiocene43–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39.1 Mya18.7 Mya43.1 Mya15.4 Mya

8 occurrences of Saccella semiteres 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

8 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

4 formations

Waihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 170.93°EWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.88°S, 170.77°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 45.00°S, 170.73°EAshley Mudstone — 44.78°S, 171.17°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°E

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

Saccella semiteres and its relatives

Eocene

Where Saccella semiteres and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

142 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Saccella semiteres, 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

2 references

Each of the 8 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Saccella semiteres 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 semiteres, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Saccella semiteres 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. (Hutton 1877)