Digitaria digitaria
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DigitariaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At least 1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 774 ka.
10 occurrences of Digitaria digitaria on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
10 occurrences- Pliocene80%
- Pleistocene20%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Digitaria digitaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Digitaria digitaria and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Digitaria digitaria and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
315 taxa- Buccinum undatum3 sites
- Hiatella arctica3 sites
- Lucinoma borealis3 sites
- Natica3 sites
- Aequipecten opercularis2 sites
- Amyclina labiosa2 sites
- Aporrhais pespelecani2 sites
- Arctica islandica2 sites
- Astarte2 sites
- Astarte (Digitariopsis) obliquata2 sites
- Calliostoma2 sites
- Calliostoma zizyphinum2 sites
- Calyptraea chinensis2 sites
- Clausinella fasciata2 sites
- Cylichna (Cylichna) cylindracea2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Diodora graeca2 sites
- Emarginula fissura2 sites
- Galeodea bicatenata2 sites
- Gari (Psammobia)2 sites
- Glycymeris2 sites
- Heteranomia squamula2 sites
- Laevicardium (Laevicardium) decorticatum2 sites
- Mya (Arenomya) arenaria2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Digitaria digitaria, 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
4 references- The Neogene Bivalvia (Heterodonta and Anomalodesmata) and Scaphopoda from Kallo and Doel (Oost Vlaanderen, Belgium)7
- Neogene stratigraphy of the Langenboom locality (Noord-Brabant, Netherlands)1
- Presenza di «Ospiti boreali» (Mollusca, Gastropoda) nel Pleistocene di Contrada Case Alte (Villa S. Giovanni)1
- Wood, 18821
Each of the 10 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 Digitaria digitaria
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Digitaria digitaria 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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What may have been alongside itDigitaria through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)