Diodora unica

Sean Vanderluit · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- DiodoraPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, carnivorePBDB, for Diodora
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Diodora
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Diodora
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Diodora unica on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
1 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Diodora unica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diodora unica and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Diodora unica and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Anadara trilineata1 site
- Argopecten circularis impostor1 site
- Astrangia coalingensis1 site
- Boreotrophon multicostatus1 site
- Caesia californiana1 site
- Califostoma turris1 site
- Callianax pedroana1 site
- Calliostoma kerri1 site
- Calyptraea filosa1 site
- Camelidae1 site
- Chama arcana1 site
- Chlamys egregius1 site
- Concavus concavus1 site
- Dallocardia quadragenarium1 site
- Dendostrea vespertina1 site
- Dendraster arnoldi1 site
- Eupleura perangulata1 site
- Merriamaster perrini1 site
- Modiolus carpenteri1 site
- Natica recluziana1 site
- Oppenheimopecten coalingaensis1 site
- Panopea generosa1 site
- Pecten etchegoini nutteri1 site
- Petricola (Petricola) carditoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Diodora unica, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Diodora unica
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Sean Vanderluit
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Diodora unica 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 itDiodora through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nomland 1917)