Saxolucina

Saxolucina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LucininaePBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 127 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 127 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 127 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 127 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 9 of 127 occurrencesEocene — about 84 of 127 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 31 of 127 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 127 occurrences164–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences154–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–144 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences144–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences118–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–108 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences108–103 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–77 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences77–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–67 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences67–62 Mya — about 7 occurrences62–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–47 Mya — about 8 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 24 occurrences42–36 Mya — about 30 occurrences36–31 Mya — about 31 occurrences31–26 Mya — about 18 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences61.66 Mya15.98 Mya164 Mya11 Mya

127 occurrences of Saxolucina 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

127 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

26 formations

La Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.65°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WLa Meseta — 64.26°S, 56.66°WSubmeseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WSubmeseta — 64.26°S, 56.66°WSubmeseta — 64.25°S, 56.63°WSubmeseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WFalun de Jeurs — 48.48°N, 2.23°EFalun de Morigny — 48.45°N, 2.20°ELisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLisbon — 31.32°N, 86.73°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.57°WFalun de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°ETallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.48°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WFalun d'Auvers-Saint-Georges — 47.40°N, 4.45°ESobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.32°WThebes — 26.10°N, 34.10°EYazoo Clay — 31.78°N, 88.46°WYazoo Clay — 31.77°N, 88.33°WConglomerat de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EFalun d'Ormoy — 48.40°N, 2.15°ESable de Vauroux-Saint-Antoine — 48.43°N, 2.15°ESable de Vauroux-Saint-Antoine — 48.50°N, 2.25°ESables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WLodo — 36.60°N, 120.69°WCalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°EPoudingue de Ciply — 50.42°N, 3.95°ETufeau de Ciply — 50.42°N, 3.95°EPielach — 48.22°N, 15.30°EKarkar — 8.41°N, 48.48°EKincaid — 31.67°N, 96.47°W

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The named rock units Saxolucina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Saxolucina and its relatives

Eocene

Where Saxolucina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,376 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 120 sites for Saxolucina, 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

18 references

Each of the 127 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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

Media content1

Picture of Saxolucina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Saxolucina 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stewart 1930)