Arca arcta
No picture of Arca arcta 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 arcta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArcaPBDB
- 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 most 4.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 205.7 Mya and 201.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Arca arcta on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
1 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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.
Arca arcta and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Arca arcta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Cardita luerae1 site
- Gervillia inflata1 site
- Nucula complanata1 site
- Nucula subovalis1 site
- Ostrea1 site
- Pholadomya phaseolus1 site
- Pholadomya quenstedti1 site
- Plicatula leucensis1 site
- Rhaetina gregaria1 site
- Terebratula grossulus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Arca arcta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Arca arcta 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 arcta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Arca arcta was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itArca through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stoppani 1857)