Securella securis
No picture of Securella securis 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 securis, 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 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 774 ka.
30 occurrences of Securella securis on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
30 occurrences- Oligocene10%
- Miocene63%
- Pliocene23%
- Pleistocene4%
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
9 formations
- Empire Formation2
- Ysidro Formation1
- Enemtenskaya Formation1
- Etolonskaya Formation1
- Merced Formation1
- Wildcat Formation1
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The named rock units Securella securis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Securella securis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Securella securis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
329 taxa- Cryptonatica affinis15 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) conradi10 sites
- Mactromeris coalingensis10 sites
- Mactromeris albaria9 sites
- Crepidula princeps8 sites
- Lucinoma acutilineata6 sites
- Mulinea alta6 sites
- Cardium (Cerastoderma) corbis5 sites
- Dentalium pseudonyma5 sites
- Diplodonta parilis5 sites
- Securella bisculpta5 sites
- Anadara trilineata4 sites
- Conchocele bisecta4 sites
- Lucinoma annulata4 sites
- Yoldia (Cnesterium) aeolica4 sites
- Bathytoma3 sites
- Buccinum3 sites
- Cardium3 sites
- Fusinus3 sites
- Fusitriton oregonensis3 sites
- Hiatella arctica3 sites
- Leukoma staminea3 sites
- Mactromeris polynyma3 sites
- Mya (Mya) truncata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Securella securis, 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
8 references- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington19
- Catalogue of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California3
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.2
- The marine Tertiary stratigraphy of the North Pacific coast of America2
- A Late Pliocene macrofossil fauna of Newport Beach, Orange County, California1
- Reconnaissance of the geology and oil possibilities of Baja California, Mexico1
- Fauna of the Poul and Yakataga Formations (Upper Oligocene) of Southern Alaska1
- Faunal and stratigraphic relationships of the Empire Formation, Coos Bay, Oregon1
Each of the 30 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 Securella securis 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 securis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Securella securis 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 itSecurella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Shumard 1858)