Diplodonta parilis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiplodontaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Diplodonta
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Diplodonta
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Diplodonta
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 55 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka.
48 occurrences of Diplodonta parilis 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
48 occurrences- Paleocene2%
- Eocene40%
- Miocene42%
- Pliocene15%
- Pleistocene2%
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
- Eugene Formation18
- Tachilni Formation4
- Jacalitos Formation4
- Etchegoin Formation4
- Monterey Formation2
- Empire Formation2
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The named rock units Diplodonta parilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Diplodonta parilis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Diplodonta parilis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
398 taxa- Bruclarkia12 sites
- Crepidula ungana12 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana12 sites
- Mactromeris eugenensis12 sites
- Solen sicarius12 sites
- Solena (Eosolen) eugenensis12 sites
- Pitar (Pitar) dalli11 sites
- Parvicardium eugenense10 sites
- Tellina10 sites
- Tellina (Moerella) lincolnensis10 sites
- Cryptonatica affinis9 sites
- Macrocallista9 sites
- Mactromeris albaria9 sites
- Thracia (Cetothrax) condoni9 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis8 sites
- Polinices washingtonensis8 sites
- Yoldia (Kalayoldia) oregona8 sites
- Anadara trilineata7 sites
- Lamelliconcha clarki7 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) inquinata7 sites
- Modiolus eugenensis7 sites
- Tellina pittsburgensis7 sites
- Ancilla fishii6 sites
- Dentalium (Fissidentalium) laneensis6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Diplodonta parilis, 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- The Oligocene marine molluscan fauna of the Eugene Formation in Oregon18
- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington9
- The Etchegoin Pliocene of middle California8
- Molluscan paleontology, paleoecology, and North Pacific correlations of the Miocene Tachilni Formation, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska4
- Stratigraphy and paleontology of the marine Neogene formations of the Coalinga region, California2
- The marine Tertiary stratigraphy of the North Pacific coast of America2
- Paleogene bivalve communities in the western Tarim Basin and thei paleoenvironmental implications.1
- Raschleneniye oligotsen-nizhnemiotsenovykh tolshch vostochnoy Kamchatki (zaliv Korfa). Subdivision of Oligocene-lower Miocene layers of eastern Kamchatka, Gulf of Korfa1
- Gastropod Predation and Depositional Environments of Two Molluscan Communities from the Miocene Astoria Formation at Beverly Beach State Park, Oregon1
- Tumey Sandstone (Tertiary), Fresno County, California1
- The paleontology and stratigraphy of the Pleistocene at Signal hill, Long Beach, California1
Each of the 48 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 Diplodonta parilis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Diplodonta parilis 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 itDiplodonta through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1848)