Donax (Plebidonax) deltoides

Donax deltoides Lamarck, 1818, a relative of Donax (Plebidonax) deltoides — not Donax (Plebidonax) deltoides itself

Not Donax (Plebidonax) deltoides. This is Donax deltoides Lamarck, 1818, a relative — both are Donacidae.

Atlas of Living Australia · 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
Donax (Plebidonax)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 most 1.1 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 2.58 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Pliocene — about 1 of 1 occurrencePliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 1 occurrence3.6–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.3–3.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.2–3.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.2–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.0–3.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.1 Mya2.08 Mya

1 occurrence of Donax (Plebidonax) deltoides 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

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

Ascot — 32.08°S, 115.92°E

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The named rock units Donax (Plebidonax) deltoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Donax (Plebidonax) deltoides and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Donax (Plebidonax) deltoides and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

57 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Donax (Plebidonax) deltoides, 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 reference

Each 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 Donax deltoides Lamarck, 1818

Source
GBIF
Credit
Atlas of Living Australia
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Donax (Plebidonax) deltoides 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 itDonax (Plebidonax) through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1818)