Ctena decussata

Ctena decussata

Costa, 1829 · 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
CtenaPBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB, for Ctena
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Ctena
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Ctena
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 20 of 25 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 25 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 25 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 1 occurrence15–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.0–6.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–698 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence698 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence15.98 Mya129 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

25 occurrences of Ctena decussata 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

25 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

7 formations

Rhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°ELychow — 50.69°N, 22.03°EWeglinek — 50.72°N, 21.95°EWeglin — 50.72°N, 21.95°EPinczow — 50.53°N, 20.53°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EPanchina — 43.57°N, 10.35°E

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The named rock units Ctena decussata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ctena decussata and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ctena decussata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

972 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Ctena decussata, 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

15 references

Each of the 25 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. 3 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 content1

Picture of Ctena decussata

Credit
Costa, 1829
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ctena decussata was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Costa 1829)