Barnea truncata

Eric A. Lazo-Wasem · 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
- BarneaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pholadidae
- Life habit
- boringPBDB, for Pholadidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pholadidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.
17 occurrences of Barnea truncata 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
17 occurrences- Pliocene6%
- Pleistocene71%
- Holocene24%
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
5 formations
- Acredale Formation3
- Michoud Formation2
- New Orleans Barrier Trend Formation1
- Pamlico Formation1
- Bredasdorp Formation1
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The named rock units Barnea truncata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Barnea truncata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Barnea truncata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
365 taxa- Angulus texanus8 sites
- Mulinia lateralis7 sites
- Abra aequalis6 sites
- Acteocina canaliculata6 sites
- Crassostrea virginica6 sites
- Mercenaria campechiensis6 sites
- Neverita duplicatus6 sites
- Crepidula fornicata5 sites
- Dinocardium robustum5 sites
- Diplodonta soror5 sites
- Epitonium angulatum5 sites
- Lunarca ovalis5 sites
- Macoma tenta5 sites
- Nassarius (Nassarius) acutus5 sites
- Petricolaria pholadiformis5 sites
- Raeta (Raeta) plicatella5 sites
- Tellina (Eurytellina) alternata5 sites
- Anomia simplex4 sites
- Busycon carica4 sites
- Busycotypus canaliculatus4 sites
- Callocardia (Agriopoma) texasiana4 sites
- Crassinella lunulata4 sites
- Crepidula convexa4 sites
- Crepidula plana4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Barnea truncata, 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
7 references- Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America6
- The fauna and paleoecology of the Late Pleistocene marine sediments of southeastern Virginia3
- 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 Faunal Deposits of a Late Pleistocene Raised Beach at Milnerton, Cape Province, South Africa1
- Pleistocene shorelines in the Western Cape and South-West Africa1
Each of the 17 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 content2

Picture of Barnea truncata
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Eric A. Lazo-Wasem
- Licence
- CC0
- 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
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 itBarnea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Say 1822)