Abra nitens

Abra nitens

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AbraPBDB
Diet
deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB, for Abra
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Abra
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Abra
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 23 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 0 of 40 occurrencesEocene — about 40 of 40 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 40 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56.5 Mya33.4 Mya

40 occurrences of Abra nitens 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

40 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

8 formations

Moodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WCook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.75°N, 92.97°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.52°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.60°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.55°WCrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WKosciusko — 32.04°N, 88.73°W

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The named rock units Abra nitens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Abra nitens and its relatives

Eocene

Where Abra nitens and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

821 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Abra nitens, 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

7 references

Each of the 40 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 Abra nitens

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Everything alive alongside itAbra through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lea 1833)