Spisula (Hemimactra) sookensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Spisula (Hemimactra)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spisula
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Spisula
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Spisula
- 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.
3 occurrences of Spisula (Hemimactra) sookensis 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 Spisula (Hemimactra) sookensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spisula (Hemimactra) sookensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Spisula (Hemimactra) sookensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Agasoma acuminatum2 sites
- Solen clallamensis2 sites
- ? Desmostylia indet.1 site
- Acilla (Truncacilla) cf. conradi1 site
- Balanus (Balanus) connelli1 site
- Cerastoderma1 site
- Cerithiopsis newcombei1 site
- Cornwallius sookensis1 site
- Crenomytilus mathewsoni1 site
- Crepidula ungana1 site
- Dentalium pseudonyma1 site
- Fusinus (Priscofusus) hannibali1 site
- Fusitriton1 site
- Gadinia reticulata sookensis1 site
- Leochlamys columbiana1 site
- Lucinoma acutilineata1 site
- Mactromeris albaria1 site
- Megangulus bodegensis1 site
- Molopophorus newcombei1 site
- Mytiloconcha1 site
- Mytilus hannibali1 site
- Ostrea sookensis1 site
- Pododesmus (Monia) newcombei1 site
- Polinices (Neverita) vancouverensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Spisula (Hemimactra) sookensis, 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 references- Fauna of the Sooke Formation Vancouver Island2
- Age and depositional environments of Tertiary rocks of Nootka Island British Columbia1
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 Spisula (Hemimactra) sookensis 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 Spisula (Hemimactra) sookensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spisula (Hemimactra) sookensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itSpisula (Hemimactra) through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clark and Arnold 1923