Barbatia (Barbatia) propatula

Natural History Museum Rotterdam · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- Barbatia (Barbatia)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Barbatia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Barbatia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Barbatia
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae
Time the record covers
At most 1.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Barbatia (Barbatia) propatula on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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- Pliocene100%
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
1 formation
- Jackson Bluff Formation · Alum Bluff Group3
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The named rock units Barbatia (Barbatia) propatula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Barbatia (Barbatia) propatula and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Barbatia (Barbatia) propatula and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
221 taxa- Aequipecten comparilis3 sites
- Cyclocardia granulata3 sites
- Abra aequalis2 sites
- Anachis camax coensis2 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) lienosa2 sites
- Anodontia alba2 sites
- Arca (Anadara) idonea harveyensis2 sites
- Architectonica nobilis2 sites
- Bullata taylori2 sites
- Busycon perversum2 sites
- Calophos wilsoni2 sites
- Carditamera arata2 sites
- Chemnitzia2 sites
- Chione (Lirophora) ulocyma leonensis2 sites
- Chlamys (Plagioctenium) eboreus darlingtonensis2 sites
- Clathrodrillia emmonsi2 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) nucleata deadenensis2 sites
- Crassinella lunulata2 sites
- Crassispira (Hindsiclava) antealesidota2 sites
- Crucibulum auriculum imbricatum2 sites
- Diplodonta2 sites
- Ervilia2 sites
- Gouldia2 sites
- Hyotissa haitensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Barbatia (Barbatia) propatula, 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
1 referenceEach 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 Barbatia (Barbatia) propatula
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Natural History Museum Rotterdam
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Barbatia (Barbatia) propatula was found in Sketchfab.
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.
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What may have been alongside itBarbatia (Barbatia) through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1844)