Arcinella arcinella

Arcinella arcinella, or the Caribbean spiny jewel box clam, spiny jewel box clam, or spiny jewel box, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Chamidae.

Arcinella arcinella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArcinellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Arcinella
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Arcinella
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Arcinella
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 59 occurrencesMiocene — about 37 of 59 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 59 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 59 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.7–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.1 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–785 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence785 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

59 occurrences of Arcinella arcinella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

59 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

18 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.29°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WJackson Bluff — 30.63°N, 86.17°WRio Banano — 9.92°N, 83.07°WRio Banano — 9.66°N, 82.75°WRio Banano — 9.62°N, 82.83°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.93°N, 82.05°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WWare — 11.85°N, 71.32°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WRaysor Marl — 33.10°N, 80.67°WAngostura — 0.97°N, 79.57°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WAgueguexquite — 18.07°N, 94.32°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WOnzole — 0.87°N, 79.89°WCaujarao — 11.46°N, 69.32°W

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The named rock units Arcinella arcinella 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.

Arcinella arcinella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Arcinella arcinella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,377 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Arcinella arcinella, 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

16 references

Each of the 59 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Arcinella arcinella

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itArcinella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1767)