Cavilinga trisulcata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CavilingaPBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Cavilinga
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Cavilinga
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cavilinga
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
22 occurrences of Cavilinga trisulcata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
22 occurrences- Miocene41%
- Pliocene30%
- Pleistocene29%
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
10 formations
- Chipola Formation · Alum Bluff Group7
- Pamlico Formation3
- Chowan RIver Formation2
- Mare Formation2
- Oak Grove Formation · Alum Bluff Group1
- James City Formation1
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The named rock units Cavilinga trisulcata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cavilinga trisulcata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cavilinga trisulcata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
843 taxa- Anadara9 sites
- Crepidula plana9 sites
- Gouldia8 sites
- Nuculana acuta8 sites
- Strioterebrum8 sites
- Calyptraea centralis7 sites
- Crepidula fornicata7 sites
- Ervilia chipolana7 sites
- Erycina7 sites
- Turritella7 sites
- Turritella subgrundifera7 sites
- Anadara (Diluvarca) santarosana6 sites
- Busycon6 sites
- Cerastoderma chipolanum6 sites
- Costaglycymeris subovata6 sites
- Divaricella (Divaricella) chipolana6 sites
- Dosinia chipolana6 sites
- Here glenni6 sites
- Lindapecten chipolanus6 sites
- Mitrella6 sites
- Nassarius (Uzita)6 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima6 sites
- Nuculana6 sites
- Parvilucina6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Cavilinga trisulcata, 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
10 references- The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida8
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel3
- Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine2
- Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America2
- The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica2
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions1
- Paleoecology of a Pliocene coral thicket from North Carolina: an example of temporal change in community structure and function1
- Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Charlotte Harbor Area in Southwestern Florida1
- Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida1
- Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina1
Each of the 22 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. 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 content1

Picture of Cavilinga trisulcata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Cavilinga trisulcata 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 itCavilinga through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1841)