Donax funerata
No picture of Donax funerata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Donax funerata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DonaxPBDB
- 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 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Donax funerata on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
8 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Donax funerata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Donax funerata and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Donax funerata and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
260 taxa- Nucula vicksburgensis8 sites
- Callista7 sites
- Glycymeris arctata7 sites
- Pitar7 sites
- Scapharca (Scapharca) delicatula7 sites
- Tellina7 sites
- Astarte menthifontis6 sites
- Corbula engonata6 sites
- Ervilia6 sites
- Lirophora (Lirophora) victoria6 sites
- Myrtina vicksburgensis6 sites
- Pteria argentea6 sites
- Spisula6 sites
- Tiza6 sites
- Varicorbula laqueata6 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) carsonensis6 sites
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) mississippiensis5 sites
- Chione5 sites
- Crassinella variablis5 sites
- Crenella fenestra5 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) eburnea5 sites
- Glycymeris suwannensis5 sites
- Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis5 sites
- Lucina (Parvilucina) posteocurta5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Donax funerata, 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
2 references- Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi7
- Observations on the Eocene formations, and descriptions of one hundred and five new fossils from that period, from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi; with an appendix1
Each of the 8 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Donax funerata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Donax funerata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Donax funerata 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 through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1848