Donax (Donax) gouldii

Donax (Donax) gouldii

Keith P · CC BY-NC 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
Also called
Gould beanclamPBDB
Sits inside
Donax (Donax)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Donax
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Donax
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Donax
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 645 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pliocene — about 0 of 48 occurrencesPleistocene — about 48 of 48 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 48 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.0–1.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.1–1.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.0–924 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences924 ka–821 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences821 ka–719 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences719 ka–616 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences616 ka–513 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences513 ka–411 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences411 ka–308 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences308 ka–205 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences205 ka–103 ka Mya — about 9 occurrences103 ka–0 Mya — about 28 occurrences774 ka129 ka3.08 Mya0 Mya

48 occurrences of Donax (Donax) gouldii on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

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

5 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WBay Point — 32.78°N, 117.24°WAnchor — 34.04°N, 118.40°W

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The named rock units Donax (Donax) gouldii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Donax (Donax) gouldii and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Donax (Donax) gouldii and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,004 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Donax (Donax) gouldii, 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

19 references

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. 7 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 content2

Picture of Donax (Donax) gouldii

Source
GBIF
Credit
Keith P
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Donax (Paraserrula) variabilis · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:202068

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itDonax (Donax) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1921)