Donax politus
No picture of Donax politus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 politus, 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 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Donax politus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Donax politus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Donax politus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Donax politus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
317 taxa- Aequipecten opercularis3 sites
- Cardita scalaris3 sites
- Cardita senilis3 sites
- Caryocorbula striata3 sites
- Gastrana laminosa3 sites
- Isocrassina basteroti3 sites
- Isocrassina omalii3 sites
- Laevicardium (Laevicardium) decorticatum3 sites
- Lucinoma borealis3 sites
- Nassarius (Tritonella) consociatus3 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) nucleus3 sites
- Pecten maxima3 sites
- Spisula arcuata3 sites
- Turritella (Haustator) incrassata3 sites
- Amyclina labiosa2 sites
- Anomia striata2 sites
- Aporrhais pespelecani2 sites
- Arca lactea2 sites
- Arctica islandica2 sites
- Artemis lentiformis2 sites
- Astarte (Digitariopsis) obliquata burtinea2 sites
- Astarte gracilis2 sites
- Astarte incerta2 sites
- Astarte incrassata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Donax politus, 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 referencesEach of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Donax politus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 politus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Donax politus 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 PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Poli 1791)