Atrina
Searched as Atrina pectinata vindobonensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Atrina as the accepted name.

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
- PinnidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At most 1.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 13.82 Mya and 12.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Atrina on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
1 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.
Atrina and its relatives
MioceneWhere Atrina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
3,492 taxa- Dentalium30 sites
- Turritella29 sites
- Cadulus28 sites
- Polinices25 sites
- Pitar22 sites
- Ficus21 sites
- Sinum21 sites
- Acteon20 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta20 sites
- Pteria20 sites
- Athleta petrosa19 sites
- Chlamys18 sites
- Microdrillia18 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta18 sites
- Architectonica17 sites
- Gastropoda17 sites
- Tellina17 sites
- Caryocorbula deusseni16 sites
- Clavilithes16 sites
- Latirus16 sites
- Levifusus16 sites
- Nucula16 sites
- Nuculana16 sites
- Barbatia15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 153 sites for Atrina, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content2

Picture of Atrina
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPinnidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1842)