Clausinella fasciata

Clausinella fasciata, the banded venus, is a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Veneridae.

Clausinella fasciata

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
ClausinellaPBDB
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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 3 of 12 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 12 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 6 of 12 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–698 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence698 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

12 occurrences of Clausinella fasciata 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

12 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

6 formations

Red Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°EKoronia — 35.05°N, 33.10°EMammaliferous Crag — 52.58°N, 1.38°WNorwich Crag — 52.58°N, 1.38°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EWexford Gravels — 52.43°N, 6.33°W

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The named rock units Clausinella fasciata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clausinella fasciata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Clausinella fasciata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

706 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Clausinella fasciata, 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

Each of the 12 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 content2

Picture of Clausinella fasciata

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Clausinella fasciata · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:2755

The description on this site

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

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What may have been alongside itClausinella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (da Costa 1778)