Saxidomus newcombei
No picture of Saxidomus newcombei 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 Saxidomus newcombei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SaxidomusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Saxidomus newcombei on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
2 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
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The named rock units Saxidomus newcombei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Saxidomus newcombei and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Saxidomus newcombei and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Agasoma acuminatum1 site
- Antiplanes muirensis1 site
- Canadodus suntoki1 site
- Cerithiopsis newcombei1 site
- Chlamys cornwalli1 site
- Clinocardium sookensis1 site
- Corbicula sookensis1 site
- Cornwallius sookensis1 site
- Cryptomya quadrata vancouverensis1 site
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) stephensoni1 site
- Fusinus (Priscofusus) hannibali1 site
- Gadinia reticulata sookensis1 site
- Glycymeris vancouverensis1 site
- Goniobasis sookensis1 site
- Lirabuccinum branneri1 site
- Lucinoma columbiana1 site
- Macoma1 site
- Macoma (Heteromacoma) vancouverensis1 site
- Macoma sookensis1 site
- Mactromeris hannibali1 site
- Megangulus bodegensis1 site
- Modiolus sookensis1 site
- Myadesma dalli1 site
- Mytiloconcha1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Saxidomus newcombei, 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 referencesEach of the 2 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 Saxidomus newcombei 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 Saxidomus newcombei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Saxidomus newcombei 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 itSaxidomus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Merriam 1897)