Arca trapezia
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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 763 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 774 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Arca trapezia 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
7 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
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The named rock units Arca trapezia 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.
Arca trapezia and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Arca trapezia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
197 taxa- Fragum erugatum6 sites
- Diala lauta5 sites
- Elachorbis5 sites
- Wallucina4 sites
- Bittium (Cacozeliana)3 sites
- Callista planatella3 sites
- Circe (Circe) scripta3 sites
- Circe (Redicirce)3 sites
- Dendostrea folium3 sites
- Diala lirulata3 sites
- Diplodonta3 sites
- Dosinia3 sites
- Eumarcia fumigata3 sites
- Fragum3 sites
- Katelysia scalarina3 sites
- Macoma3 sites
- Mactra3 sites
- Marcia3 sites
- Notosetia3 sites
- Rhinoclavis bituberculata3 sites
- Septifer bilocularis3 sites
- Tapes dorsatus3 sites
- Angulus2 sites
- Brachidontes (Hormomya)2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Arca trapezia, 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- The fossil Mollusca of the Peppermint Grove Limestone, Swan River district or Western Australia3
- Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal events and history along the western margin of Australia2
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions1
- A Pleistocene molluscan fauna with Anadara trapezia (Deshayes) (Bivalvia: Arcoida) from the Dampier Limestone of Shark Bay, Western Australia1
Each of the 7 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 Arca trapezia 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 trapezia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Arca trapezia was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itArca through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deshayes 1839