Acar plicata

Acar plicata

Dillwyn, 1817 · CC0 · 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
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 5 of 29 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 29 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 20 of 29 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.2–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.1–549 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

29 occurrences of Acar plicata 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

29 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

Waimanalo — 21.35°N, 158.12°WWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WWaimanalo — 21.27°N, 157.75°WWaimanalo — 21.30°N, 157.87°WRyukyu Limestone — 24.38°N, 124.22°EBundera Calcarenite — 21.89°S, 114.02°ELower Menkrawit — 1.50°N, 116.50°ELower Gelingseh — 1.50°N, 116.50°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ERembang — 7.49°S, 110.00°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.37°S, 111.32°E

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The named rock units Acar plicata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acar plicata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Acar plicata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

578 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Acar plicata, 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

14 references

Each of the 29 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. 2 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 content1

Picture of Acar plicata

Credit
Dillwyn, 1817
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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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. (Dillwyn 1817)