Barnea
Barnea is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Pholadidae.

Erik Veldhuis; Modified by Tom Meijer · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
- PholadinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pholadidae
- Life habit
- boringPBDB, for Pholadidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pholadidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 85 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 0 Mya.
63 occurrences of Barnea 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
63 occurrences- Late Cretaceous3%
- Eocene5%
- Miocene14%
- Pliocene21%
- Pleistocene49%
- Holocene8%
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
28 formations
- Pamlico Formation8
- Red Crag Formation4
- Acredale Formation3
- Talbot Formation3
- Michoud Formation2
- Waccamaw Formation2
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The named rock units Barnea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Barnea and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Barnea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
1,880 taxa- Abra aequalis10 sites
- Angulus texanus9 sites
- Mulinia lateralis8 sites
- Crassostrea virginica7 sites
- Mercenaria campechiensis7 sites
- Mya (Arenomya) arenaria7 sites
- Neverita duplicatus7 sites
- Acteocina canaliculata6 sites
- Corbula6 sites
- Crassinella lunulata6 sites
- Diplodonta soror6 sites
- Eupleura caudata6 sites
- Modiolus6 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima6 sites
- Petricolaria pholadiformis6 sites
- Aequipecten opercularis5 sites
- Anadara5 sites
- Bornia5 sites
- Busycotypus canaliculatus5 sites
- Crepidula fornicata5 sites
- Dentalium5 sites
- Dinocardium robustum5 sites
- Ensis directus5 sites
- Epitonium angulatum5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Barnea, 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
33 references- Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America17
- The fauna and paleoecology of the Late Pleistocene marine sediments of southeastern Virginia3
- Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina. Part 1. Pelecypoda3
- Wood, 18503
- New Cretaceous and Tertiary Pholadidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from California2
- Facies analysis, paleoecology and sequence stratigraphy in a Pliocene siliciclastic succession, Sanb Miniato (Pisa, Italy)2
- Late Tertiary and Early Quaternary Fossil Mollusca for the Hondeklip Area, Cape Province, South Africa2
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary sediments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana2
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary seduments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana2
- The Geology of the Lower Haraz Valley area, Central Alborz, Iran2
- Summary of the geology and paleontology of the Atsumi Peninsula, Aichi Prefecture, Japan2
- Paleontology of Coyote Mountain, Imperial County, California2
Each of the 63 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. 21 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 content3
Picture of Barnea
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Erik Veldhuis; Modified by Tom Meijer
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Barnea truncata · USNM:IZ:USNM 1409682
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPholadinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach 1826