Saccella westendorpi

No picture of Saccella westendorpi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 westendorpi, 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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 60 occurrencesOligocene — about 13 of 60 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 47 of 60 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 60 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–26 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 9 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.7–8.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.7–7.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.7–6.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.7–5.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.8–4.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27.3 Mya11.63 Mya34.5 Mya4.8 Mya

60 occurrences of Saccella westendorpi on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

60 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

7 formations

Falun de Jeurs — 48.47°N, 2.17°EBerada — 51.10°N, 5.80°EBreda — 52.15°N, 6.61°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EVejle Fjord — 55.18°N, 11.88°EVejle Fjord — 56.00°N, 9.25°ESable de Vauroux-Saint-Antoine — 48.50°N, 2.25°EBranden Clay — 56.80°N, 9.04°EBrejning — 56.87°N, 8.64°E

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The named rock units Saccella westendorpi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Saccella westendorpi and its relatives

Miocene

Where Saccella westendorpi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

570 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Saccella westendorpi, 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

9 references

Each of the 60 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 westendorpi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 westendorpi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Saccella westendorpi 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 MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nyst and Westendorp 1839)