Spondylus (Spondylus) filiaris
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpondylusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spondylus
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spondylus
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Spondylus
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Spondylidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Spondylus (Spondylus) filiaris 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
9 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
5 formations
- Mint Spring Formation4
- Forest Hill Formation2
- Glendon Limestone Formation1
- Byram Formation1
- Flint River Formation1
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The named rock units Spondylus (Spondylus) filiaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spondylus (Spondylus) filiaris and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Spondylus (Spondylus) filiaris and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
150 taxa- Chama (Psilopus) mississippiensis5 sites
- Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis5 sites
- Ostrea paroxis5 sites
- Callista4 sites
- Glycymeris suwannensis4 sites
- Myrtina vicksburgensis4 sites
- Nucula vicksburgensis4 sites
- Pitar4 sites
- Pteria argentea4 sites
- Spisula4 sites
- Chione3 sites
- Crassatella (Crassatella) lirasculpta3 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) eburnea3 sites
- Eburneopecten (Eburneopecten) subminutus3 sites
- Ervilia3 sites
- Jouannetia3 sites
- Pecten (Pecten) poulsoni3 sites
- Scapharca (Scapharca) delicatula3 sites
- Serpulorbis3 sites
- Serratina aequistriata3 sites
- Tellina3 sites
- Trachycardium eversum3 sites
- Acteon2 sites
- Agnocardia glebosum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Spondylus (Spondylus) filiaris, 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- Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi8
- A contribution to the invertebrate fauna of the Oligocene beds of Flint, River1
Each of the 9 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 content1
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Spondylus tenuis · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:177525
No picture of Spondylus (Spondylus) filiaris 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 Spondylus (Spondylus) filiaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSpondylus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1916)