Dosina

Dosina is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae.

Dosina

Javier · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
VenerinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 3 of 34 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 10 of 34 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 34 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 34 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 34 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–33 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.1–3.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences33.9 Mya129 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

34 occurrences of Dosina on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

34 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

18 formations

Lillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°EOtekaike Limestone — 45.79°S, 170.51°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.86°S, 170.67°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.84°S, 170.52°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.35°ECoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°ECoralline Crag — 52.12°N, 1.55°EOtahuhu — 36.95°S, 174.84°EBlanche Point — 35.28°S, 138.48°EPallinup Siltstone — 35.02°S, 117.89°EBrowns Creek — 38.75°S, 143.37°EFreestone Cove Sandstone — 41.00°S, 145.72°EJan Juc — 38.33°S, 144.30°ENaseby Greensand — 45.02°S, 170.12°EArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WTokama Siltstone — 44.31°S, 171.22°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°EPuebla — 38.32°S, 144.32°ENari — 26.14°N, 66.79°ETielrode — 51.12°N, 4.18°ERed Crag — 52.02°N, 1.43°EWexford Gravels — 52.43°N, 6.33°W

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The named rock units Dosina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dosina and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Dosina and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

772 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Dosina, 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

16 references

Each of the 34 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. 4 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 Dosina

Credit
Javier
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Dosina mactracea · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:190892

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itVenerinae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1835)