Circe

Circe

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GouldiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 81 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 81 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 81 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 81 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 81 occurrencesMiocene — about 13 of 81 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 81 occurrencesPleistocene — about 46 of 81 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 9 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 55 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

81 occurrences of Circe 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

81 occurrences

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

24 formations

Tamala Limestone — 32.04°S, 115.76°ELellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ETogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°ENagura Gravel — 24.43°N, 124.23°EDampier Limestone — 25.53°S, 113.48°ETartaro — 15.15°N, 121.01°ETartaro — 14.95°N, 121.05°ENyalindung — 7.49°S, 110.00°ENyalindung — 7.48°S, 108.42°ESakishima — 34.37°N, 136.82°EGelingseh — 0.98°N, 117.97°EKlasaman — 0.88°S, 131.25°EAbbas — 16.75°N, 41.73°EOrmara & Jiwani — 25.25°N, 62.25°EPoivre — 20.67°S, 115.42°EHerschell Limestone — 32.00°S, 115.52°EUlian — 11.09°N, 122.49°ELower Gelingseh — 1.50°N, 116.50°ELower Menkrawit — 1.50°N, 116.50°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°EMekran — 25.12°N, 62.33°EMalua — 16.25°S, 167.50°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.37°S, 111.32°EFalse Bay Coral Limestone — 28.37°S, 32.40°EKutai Basin — 0.17°N, 117.44°ESzekou — 22.01°N, 120.72°E

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The named rock units Circe has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Circe and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Circe and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,107 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Circe, 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

37 references

Each of the 81 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. 25 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 content2

Picture of Circe

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Gari (Dysmea) circe · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:315754

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schumacher 1817