Scapharca meroensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnadaraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Anadara
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Anadara
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Anadara
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Scapharca meroensis 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Scapharca meroensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Scapharca meroensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Scapharca meroensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Clementia (Egesta) peruviana3 sites
- Macoma meroensis3 sites
- Ampullinopsis spenceri2 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) posorjensis2 sites
- Chorus sula2 sites
- Crepidula2 sites
- Dosinia2 sites
- Pseudoliva parinasensis mancorensis2 sites
- Turritella conquistadorana2 sites
- Turritella meroensis2 sites
- Adrana1 site
- Agaronia1 site
- Agaronia antisana1 site
- Angulus1 site
- Architectonica sullana1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Bursa1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Chorus meroensis1 site
- Costacallista mancorensis1 site
- Epitonium1 site
- Ficus woodringi1 site
- Hannatoma1 site
- Hannatoma gesteri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Scapharca meroensis, 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
3 references- The age of the Hannatoma mollusk fauna of South America; a symposium1
- The geology of south-western Ecuador1
- Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene1
Each of the 3 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 Scapharca meroensis 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 Scapharca meroensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scapharca meroensis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAnadara through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Olsson 1931