Spondylus batequensis
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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 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Spondylus batequensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
5 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Spondylus batequensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spondylus batequensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Spondylus batequensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
72 taxa- Phygraea pacifica4 sites
- Pseudophragmina clarki4 sites
- Archaeolithothamnium3 sites
- Clionidae3 sites
- Pycnodonte (Pegma) bajaensis3 sites
- Cidaroida2 sites
- Cypraedia girauxi2 sites
- Dasycladaceae2 sites
- Elasmostoma bajaensis2 sites
- Nayadina (Exputens) batequensis2 sites
- Platyoptera pacifica2 sites
- Schizaster2 sites
- Stephanocyathus2 sites
- Velates batequensis2 sites
- Velates perversus2 sites
- Acar1 site
- Actinacis1 site
- Actinocyclina1 site
- Agnocardia sorrentoensis1 site
- Amauropsis1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Antillia batequensis1 site
- Architectonica (Stellaxis) cognata1 site
- Astrocoenia dilloni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Spondylus batequensis, 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- Paleontology of the Eocene Bateque Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico4
- New Eocene Marine Bivalves from Baja California Sur, Mexico1
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Spondylus batequensis 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 batequensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spondylus batequensis 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 itSpondylus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Squires and Demetrion 1990