Spondylus bostrychites

Spondylus bostrychites

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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 least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 49 occurrencesMiocene — about 30 of 49 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 49 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 49 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.9–9.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.2–8.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.5–7.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 9 occurrences6.4–5.7 Mya — about 9 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15.98 Mya3.6 Mya23.5 Mya2.1 Mya

49 occurrences of Spondylus bostrychites 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

49 occurrences

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

12 formations

Gurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.30°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.95°WRio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WWare — 11.85°N, 71.32°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WImperial — 32.83°N, 116.04°WMao — 19.53°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.08°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WBuckingham — 25.70°N, 80.40°WAnguilla — 18.21°N, 63.08°W

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The named rock units Spondylus bostrychites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spondylus bostrychites and its relatives

Miocene

Where Spondylus bostrychites and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

608 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Spondylus bostrychites, 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

10 references

Each of the 49 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

Picture of Spondylus bostrychites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Guppy 1867