Acar domingensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcarPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Acar
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Acar
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Acar
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae
Time the record covers
At least 48 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.
63 occurrences of Acar domingensis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
63 occurrencesThese 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
28 formations
- Talparo Formation6
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group4
- Arcadia Formation · Hawthorn Group4
- Belmont Formation4
- Devonshire Formation4
- Grotto Beach Formation3
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The named rock units Acar domingensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Acar domingensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Acar domingensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
1,676 taxa- Anadara9 sites
- Arcopsis adamsi9 sites
- Diodora8 sites
- Chama7 sites
- Anomia6 sites
- Calyptraea centralis6 sites
- Cerithium6 sites
- Chione cancellata6 sites
- Donax6 sites
- Lamarcka imbricata6 sites
- Niso6 sites
- Pseudochama6 sites
- Strombus6 sites
- Argopecten5 sites
- Argopecten gibbus5 sites
- Astralium5 sites
- Cancellaria5 sites
- Corbula (Notocorbula)5 sites
- Crassinella5 sites
- Dentalium (Graptacme)5 sites
- Juliacorbula aequivalvis5 sites
- Modiolus5 sites
- Parvilucina5 sites
- Phacoides5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Acar domingensis, 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
19 references- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions14
- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (additions to gastropods, scaphopods, pelecypods: Nuculidae to Malleidae)9
- The marine Pleistocene mollusks of Bermuda9
- Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad6
- Molluscs of the Tampa and Suwannee Limestones4
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel3
- Stability of Late Pleistocene Reef Mollusks from San Salvador Island, Bahamas3
- Moluscos de la Formación Agueguexquite (Plioceno inferior) de Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, México2
- Distribution of Bivalves and Gastropod in the Pleistocene Ironshore Formation, Grand Cayman, British West Indies2
- Mollusca from the raised beach deposits of the Kwantô region2
- Mollusca: Shoal River Formation (Middle Miocene1
- Relict shelf-edge Holocene coral reef: southeast coast of Florida1
Each of the 63 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. 7 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Acar domingensis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- James St. John
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Acar domingensis · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:183598
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 itAcar through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1819)