Superlucina megameris

Superlucina megameris

William Healey Dall (1845-1927) · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SuperlucinaPBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 7.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Eocene — about 21 of 22 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 22 occurrencesOligocene49–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41.03 Mya33.9 Mya48.6 Mya26.8 Mya

22 occurrences of Superlucina megameris 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

22 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

9 formations

Inglis Limestone — 29.05°N, 82.45°WInglis Limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°WInglis Limestone — 28.92°N, 82.46°WTroy Limestone — 18.32°N, 77.13°WTroy Limestone — 18.07°N, 76.75°WAvon Park — 29.25°N, 82.73°WAvon Park — 29.01°N, 82.65°WGatuncillo — 9.20°N, 79.55°WCeru di Cueba — 12.11°N, 68.81°WSomerset — 18.32°N, 77.18°WMoneague — 18.27°N, 77.12°WLos Hidalgos — 19.73°N, 71.03°WGibralter limestone — 18.32°N, 77.18°W

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The named rock units Superlucina megameris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Superlucina megameris and its relatives

Eocene

Where Superlucina megameris and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

205 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Superlucina megameris, 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 22 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 Superlucina megameris

Credit
William Healey Dall (1845-1927)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Superlucina megameris 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 itSuperlucina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1901)