Trigoniocardia (Goniacardia) melajoensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Trigoniocardia (Goniacardia)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Trigoniocardia (Goniacardia)
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Trigoniocardia (Goniacardia)
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Trigoniocardia (Goniacardia)
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Trigoniocardia (Goniacardia) melajoensis 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
4 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Trigoniocardia (Goniacardia) melajoensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Trigoniocardia (Goniacardia) melajoensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Trigoniocardia (Goniacardia) melajoensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Argopecten demiurgus2 sites
- Balcis2 sites
- Cancellaria2 sites
- Caryocorbula (Caryocorbula)2 sites
- Conus (Lithoconus) couvaensis2 sites
- Conus imitator springvalensis2 sites
- Eburna caroniana2 sites
- Eucrassatella (Hybolophus) trinitaria2 sites
- Florimetis trinitaria2 sites
- Fusinus2 sites
- Hanetia2 sites
- Lirophora2 sites
- Macrocallista maculata2 sites
- Nassarius (Uzita)2 sites
- Naticarius canrena2 sites
- Oliva couvana2 sites
- Pecten (Pecten)2 sites
- Persicula propeobesa2 sites
- Petaloconchus sculpturatus2 sites
- Prunum calypsonis2 sites
- Prunum springvalensis2 sites
- Psammacoma2 sites
- Stramonita2 sites
- Tagelus (Mesopleura)2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Trigoniocardia (Goniacardia) melajoensis, 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- Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 9. The Family Cardiidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia)2
- Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad2
Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Trigoniocardia (Goniacardia) melajoensis 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 Trigoniocardia (Goniacardia) melajoensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Trigoniocardia (Goniacardia) melajoensis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itTrigoniocardia (Goniacardia) through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jung 1969)