Spondylus lamellacea
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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 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
13 occurrences of Spondylus lamellacea 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
13 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
3 formations
- Castle Hayne Formation · Claiborne Group7
- Santee Limestone Formation5
- Tupelo Bay Formation1
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The named rock units Spondylus lamellacea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spondylus lamellacea and its relatives
EoceneWhere Spondylus lamellacea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
155 taxa- Chlamys11 sites
- Cypraea8 sites
- Cidaris pratti7 sites
- Conus7 sites
- Crassatella7 sites
- Eutrephoceras carolinensis7 sites
- Fusinus7 sites
- Turritella7 sites
- Chama6 sites
- Cubitostrea sellaeformis6 sites
- Crassatella texalta5 sites
- Linthia hanoverensis5 sites
- Lucina5 sites
- Marginella5 sites
- Ostrea5 sites
- Plicatula filamentosa5 sites
- Protoscutella conradi5 sites
- Recurvaster5 sites
- Venericardia5 sites
- Aturia alabamensis4 sites
- Cardiidae4 sites
- Caricella4 sites
- Coelopleurus infulatus4 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Spondylus lamellacea, 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
4 references- Eocene biostratigraphy of South Carolina and its relationship to Gulf Coastal Plain zonations and global changes of coastal onlap6
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda3
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Castle Hayne and Trent Marls in North Carolina3
- New molluscan faunas from the Eocene of South Carolina1
Each of the 13 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 content0
No picture of Spondylus lamellacea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Spondylus lamellacea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kellum 1926