Arcopsis adamsi

A picture published with the record for Arcopsis adamsi.

Dall, 1886 · CC0 · 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
ArcopsisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Arcopsis
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Arcopsis
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Arcopsis
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 62 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 11 of 62 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 62 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 34 of 62 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 10 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 11 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences20.45 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

62 occurrences of Arcopsis adamsi 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

62 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

22 formations

Caloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.77°N, 81.15°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 33.63°N, 79.16°WWaccamaw — 33.40°N, 79.25°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.06°N, 84.49°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WTamiami — 26.70°N, 80.99°WTamiami — 25.67°N, 80.31°WGuaiguaza Clay — 10.00°N, 68.00°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WBelmont — 32.32°N, 64.72°WAnastasia — 26.33°N, 80.13°WHorry Clay — 33.69°N, 78.89°WCoffee Mill Hammock — 26.73°N, 81.51°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°W

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The named rock units Arcopsis adamsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Arcopsis adamsi and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Arcopsis adamsi and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,936 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Arcopsis adamsi, 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

24 references

Each of the 62 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. 12 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

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Picture of Arcopsis adamsi

Credit
Dall, 1886
Licence
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Specimen
Arcopsis adamsi · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:94728

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1886)