Securella elsmerensis
No picture of Securella elsmerensis 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 Securella elsmerensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SecurellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
12 occurrences of Securella elsmerensis 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
12 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Securella elsmerensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Securella elsmerensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Securella elsmerensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
116 taxa- Panopea generosa8 sites
- Anadara trilineata7 sites
- Patinopecten lohri6 sites
- Tresus nuttallii5 sites
- Dendraster gibbsii4 sites
- Pusio kettlemanensis4 sites
- Saxidomus nuttalli4 sites
- Caesia californiana3 sites
- Clavus (Clathrodrillia) coalingensis3 sites
- Diplodonta parilis3 sites
- Ficus (Trophosycon) ocoyana3 sites
- Forreria coalingense3 sites
- Forreria magister3 sites
- Leporimetis obesa3 sites
- Lucinoma annulata3 sites
- Lyropecten terminus3 sites
- Macoma (Rexithaerus) vanvlecki3 sites
- Megangulus bodegensis3 sites
- Natica recluziana3 sites
- Pseudocardium densatum3 sites
- Siliqua lucida3 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) castrensis2 sites
- Callianax biplicata2 sites
- Callithaca tenerrima2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Securella elsmerensis, 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 Etchegoin Pliocene of middle California10
- The upper Pliocene San Diego Formation and the occurrence of Carcharodon megalodon at La Joya, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico1
- Geology and oil resources of a part of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California1
Each of the 12 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
Media content0
No picture of Securella elsmerensis 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 Securella elsmerensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Securella elsmerensis 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 itSecurella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (English 1914)