Archivesica

Archivesica

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VesicomyidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Glossoidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Glossoidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Glossoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 4 of 16 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 16 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 16 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 16 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–33 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences33.9 Mya129 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

16 occurrences of Archivesica on record. 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

16 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

10 formations

Cone Hill — 4.74°S, 81.21°WKulthieth — 60.18°N, 144.38°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WWagonwheel — 35.70°N, 119.99°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.27°WRedwood — 60.18°N, 144.38°WSitkalidak — 57.19°N, 152.94°WNiguel — 33.51°N, 117.66°WTowsley — 34.34°N, 118.54°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°W

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The named rock units Archivesica 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

267 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Archivesica, 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

10 references

Each of the 16 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

Picture of Archivesica

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Archivesica 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dall 1908