Arca turonica
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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 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
8 occurrences of Arca turonica on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
8 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 turonica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Arca turonica and its relatives
MioceneWhere Arca turonica and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
233 taxa- Ostrea5 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata4 sites
- Chama gryphoides4 sites
- Camptonectes virgatus3 sites
- Cardita3 sites
- Cardium3 sites
- Cerastoderma edule3 sites
- Chlamys3 sites
- Chlamys (Chlamys) varia3 sites
- Diodora (Diodora) italica3 sites
- Lucina columbella3 sites
- Pecten3 sites
- Talochlamys multistriata3 sites
- Tucetona pectinata3 sites
- Turritella (Turritella) tricarinata3 sites
- Aequipecten2 sites
- Aequipecten opercularis2 sites
- Amalda glandiformis2 sites
- Amusium2 sites
- Anachis (Costoanachis)2 sites
- Anadara2 sites
- Anadara fichteli2 sites
- Anomia ephippium2 sites
- Aporrhais2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Arca turonica, 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- Biozonation of the Neogene invertebrate megafauna of the Hellenic area4
- Notes on the Neogene faunas of Cyprus, II.3
- La faune Miocène de l'Île du Prince1
Each of the 8 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 turonica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Arca turonica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itArca (Arca) through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dujardin 1837