Dallarca idonea

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DallarcaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Anadarinae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Anadarinae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Anadarinae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
18 occurrences of Dallarca idonea on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
18 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- St Marys Formation · Chesapeake Group7
- St Mary's Formation · Chesapeake Group5
- Saint Marys Formation · Chesapeake Group4
- Eastover Formation1
- Kirkwood Formation1
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The named rock units Dallarca idonea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dallarca idonea and its relatives
MioceneWhere Dallarca idonea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
80 taxa- Turritella plebeia plebeia10 sites
- Dosinia acetabulum thori9 sites
- Panopea goldfussii9 sites
- Laevihastula simplex8 sites
- Mactrodesma subponderosa8 sites
- Mercenaria tetrica8 sites
- Nassarius (Tritiaria) peralta8 sites
- Chesacardium laqueatum laqueatum7 sites
- Chesapecten santamaria7 sites
- Ecphora gardnerae gardnerae7 sites
- Turritella subvariabilis subvariabilis7 sites
- Astarte perplana6 sites
- Buccinofusus parilis6 sites
- Bulliopsis quadrata6 sites
- Clementia (Clementia) inoceriformis6 sites
- Conus deluvianus6 sites
- Lirophora (Lirophora) alveata6 sites
- Stewartia anodonta6 sites
- Urosalpinx subrusticus6 sites
- Bulliopsis marylandica5 sites
- Busycon5 sites
- Crassostrea5 sites
- Florimetis biplicata5 sites
- Glossus santamaria5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Dallarca idonea, 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
5 references- Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America10
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions5
- Well-boring at Brandywine Lighthouse in Delaware Bay. Part I. - Geology and Macrofossils1
- Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina. Part 1. Pelecypoda1
- Geological and paleontological relations, with a review of earlier investigations1
Each of the 18 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 content1

Picture of Dallarca idonea
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- 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 itDallarca through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1832)