Cunearca silverdalensis
Searched as Arca silverdalensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Cunearca silverdalensis as the accepted name.
No picture of Cunearca silverdalensis 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 Cunearca silverdalensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnadaraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Anadara
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Anadara
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Anadara
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Cunearca silverdalensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
5 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Cunearca silverdalensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cunearca silverdalensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Cunearca silverdalensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Sinum imperforatum4 sites
- Astarte claytonrayi3 sites
- Astarte onslowensis3 sites
- Cyclocardia trentensis3 sites
- Donax idoneus3 sites
- Stewartia anodonta3 sites
- Turritella tampae3 sites
- Venericardia nodifera3 sites
- Anadara (Sectiarca) floridana2 sites
- Anomia ruffini2 sites
- Antigona lamellacea2 sites
- Busycon spiniger onslowensis2 sites
- Chione (Chamelea) spada2 sites
- Conus postalveatus2 sites
- Cyclocardia granulata2 sites
- Dimarzipecten crocus2 sites
- Dinocardium taphrium2 sites
- Ecphora tampaensis2 sites
- Fusinus hoffmani2 sites
- Glycymeris anteparilis2 sites
- Lyria carolinensis2 sites
- Macrocallista (Macrocallista) acuminata2 sites
- Macrocallista tia2 sites
- Mercenaria capax2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cunearca silverdalensis, 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
3 references- Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America3
- Additions to the Fauna of the Trent Marl of North Carolina1
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Castle Hayne and Trent Marls in North Carolina1
Each of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Cunearca silverdalensis 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 Cunearca silverdalensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cunearca silverdalensis 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 itAnadara through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kellum 1926)