Ctena orbiculata

Ctena orbiculata, commonly known as the dwarf tiger lucine, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Lucinidae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, ranging from North Carolina to the West Indies.

Ctena orbiculata

Montagu, 1808 · CC0 · 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
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 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 22 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 22 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 18 of 22 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 22 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

22 occurrences of Ctena orbiculata 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

22 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

11 formations

Belmont — 32.33°N, 64.69°WBelmont — 32.36°N, 64.71°WIronshore — 19.33°N, 81.25°WDevonshire — 32.30°N, 64.75°WDevonshire — 32.30°N, 64.86°WSpencer's Point — 32.31°N, 64.73°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WUrumaco — 11.25°N, 70.27°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°W

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The named rock units Ctena orbiculata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ctena orbiculata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Ctena orbiculata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

628 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ctena orbiculata, 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

11 references

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 content2

Picture of Ctena orbiculata

Credit
Montagu, 1808
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Ctena orbiculata · USNM:IZ:USNM 272727

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Montagu 1808)