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Cardiomya ornatissima (d'Orbigny 1853)

ecomorphological guild

Paleobiology Database
infaunal
URI: http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/Infaunal

Definition: Benthic animals which live within the seabed.

Attribution: http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/wiki/Traits:Infaunal

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(adult)

extinction status

Paleobiology Database
extant
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/extant

Definition: This taxon is still in existence, as opposed to extinct.

Attribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extant_taxon

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first appearance

Paleobiology Database

3.6 million years ago

(max)
Paleobiology Database
piacenzian age
URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Piacenzian

Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

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last appearance

Paleobiology Database

0.126 million years ago

(min)
Paleobiology Database
middle pleistocene age
URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/MiddlePleistocene

Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

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motility

Paleobiology Database
facultatively mobile
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/facultativelyMobile

Definition: Organisms that can change location but do so infrequently, e.g., crinoids, some infaunal bivalves.

Attribution: http://paleodb.org/public/tips/ecology_tips.html

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(adult)

number of fossil occurrences

Paleobiology Database

3

trophic guild

Paleobiology Database
carnivore
URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q81875

Definition: organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue

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