Cultellus

Cultellus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 227 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 63 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 63 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 63 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 63 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 63 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 63 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 63 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 63 occurrencesEocene — about 9 of 63 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 63 occurrencesMiocene — about 29 of 63 occurrencesPliocene — about 8 of 63 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 63 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences56–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 7 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 9 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 17 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 14 occurrences227.3 Mya11.7 ka242 Mya0 Mya

63 occurrences of Cultellus 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

63 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

32 formations

Waita — 33.83°N, 130.50°ELillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°ELondon Clay — 51.43°N, 2.00°WLondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WLondon Clay — 51.23°N, 0.85°WKubota — 37.50°N, 140.00°EAusinskaya — 47.67°N, 142.01°EAusinskaya — 47.05°N, 142.06°ECilanang — 7.01°S, 107.33°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ETsurikake — 42.09°N, 139.47°ETsurikake — 42.20°N, 139.53°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°Emarly chalk — 51.22°N, 21.43°ESabudani — 33.50°N, 133.27°EMandul Marl — 3.75°N, 117.65°EBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WKanomatazawa — 36.66°N, 140.10°EKunugidaira — 37.00°N, 140.75°ENyalindung — 7.49°S, 110.00°EYoshino — 35.10°N, 134.19°EFuranui — 42.52°N, 142.23°EMarna di Possagno — 46.16°N, 13.37°EUpper Bhuban — 23.00°N, 93.00°EItahashi — 34.87°N, 133.01°EKattendijk — 51.25°N, 4.28°EOosterhout — 51.70°N, 5.73°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°E

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The named rock units Cultellus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cultellus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cultellus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,962 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Cultellus, 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

36 references

Each of the 63 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. 24 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 Cultellus

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itPharidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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