Arca (Arca) santamariensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Arca (Arca)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Arca
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Arca
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Arca
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae

Time the record covers

At least 2.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Miocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPleistocene12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–10.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10.0–9.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.6–9.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.2–8.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.5–8.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.2–7.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.4–6.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.0–5.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.9–4.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.5–4.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.2–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–3.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.5–3.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.1–2.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.7–2.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.0–1.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.333 Mya2.58 Mya12.1 Mya1.3 Mya

4 occurrences of Arca (Arca) santamariensis on record. 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

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

3 formations

Pancho Rico — 35.89°N, 120.56°WWilson Grove — 38.34°N, 122.84°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°W

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The named rock units Arca (Arca) santamariensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

153 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Arca (Arca) santamariensis, 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

4 references

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. 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

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Coelophrys arca · sio:marine vertebrates:70-340

No picture of Arca (Arca) santamariensis 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 Arca (Arca) santamariensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reinhart 1937