Asaphis centenaria

Asaphis centenaria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AsaphisPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Asaphis
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Asaphis
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Asaphis
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.7–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–2.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.9–2.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11.63 Mya3.6 Mya14.3 Mya2.1 Mya

3 occurrences of Asaphis centenaria 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

3 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

2 formations

Choptank — 38.73°N, 76.02°WChoptank — 38.52°N, 76.51°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°W

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The named rock units Asaphis centenaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Asaphis centenaria and its relatives

Miocene

Where Asaphis centenaria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

116 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Asaphis centenaria, 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

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Asaphis centenaria

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Asaphis centenaria 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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What may have been alongside itAsaphis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1833)