Dosinia

Dosinia is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae, subfamily Dosiniinae Deshayes, 1853. The shell of Dosinia species is disc-like in shape, usually white, and therefore is reminiscent of the shells of Lucinid bivalves.

Dosinia

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
DosiniiniPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 1041 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 1041 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 15 of 1041 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 36 of 1041 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 89 of 1041 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 517 of 1041 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 176 of 1041 occurrencesPleistocene — about 182 of 1041 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 5 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 5 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–44 Mya — about 5 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 5 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 20 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 15 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 16 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 46 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 78 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 95 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 100 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 121 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 95 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 139 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 275 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

1,041 occurrences of Dosinia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

1,041 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

223 formations

Vaqueros — 34.04°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 33.54°N, 117.78°WVaqueros — 33.68°N, 117.76°WVaqueros — 33.55°N, 117.82°WVaqueros — 33.77°N, 117.89°WVaqueros — 33.78°N, 117.70°WVaqueros — 33.64°N, 117.59°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 118.83°WVaqueros — 34.38°N, 118.95°WVaqueros — 34.00°N, 119.80°WVaqueros — 35.37°N, 120.21°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 119.03°WVaqueros — 34.38°N, 118.84°WVaqueros — 34.32°N, 119.08°WVaqueros — 34.35°N, 118.92°WVaqueros — 34.45°N, 118.92°WVaqueros — 34.42°N, 119.27°WVaqueros — 34.52°N, 120.43°WVaqueros — 34.57°N, 120.29°WVaqueros — 34.53°N, 120.31°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.16°WVaqueros — 34.92°N, 119.13°WVaqueros — 34.98°N, 120.21°WVaqueros — 35.27°N, 120.60°WVaqueros — 35.31°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 35.25°N, 120.06°WVaqueros — 35.28°N, 120.13°WVaqueros — 35.82°N, 121.06°WVaqueros — 36.07°N, 121.28°WVaqueros — 36.18°N, 121.31°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.25°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.22°WTemblor — 36.34°N, 120.36°WTemblor — 36.37°N, 120.29°WTemblor — 35.50°N, 119.78°WTemblor — 35.88°N, 120.10°WTemblor — 35.42°N, 119.85°WTemblor — 35.40°N, 119.81°WTemblor — 35.46°N, 119.87°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.85°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.88°WChoptank — 38.53°N, 76.52°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChoptank — 38.17°N, 76.80°WChoptank — 38.41°N, 76.48°WChoptank — 38.62°N, 76.12°WChoptank — 38.38°N, 76.38°WPico — 34.37°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.47°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.86°N, 120.46°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.77°N, 120.48°WKubota — 37.50°N, 140.00°EShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WKanomatazawa — 36.66°N, 140.10°EPleito — 34.99°N, 119.19°WItahana — 36.00°N, 139.00°ETalar — 25.33°N, 62.00°ETalar — 25.33°N, 65.50°EPuerto Madryn — 42.58°S, 64.59°WPuerto Madryn — 42.97°S, 64.31°WPuerto Madryn — 42.07°S, 63.75°WPuerto Madryn — 42.62°S, 64.27°WPuerto Madryn — 44.50°S, 65.27°WWaita — 33.83°N, 130.50°ECaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.70°N, 80.99°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.06°N, 84.49°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WYorktown — 35.51°N, 77.62°WYorktown — 37.25°N, 76.50°WYorktown — 37.02°N, 76.58°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.96°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WTapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.88°S, 170.77°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.97°S, 170.58°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 45.01°S, 170.71°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.92°S, 170.58°ESpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WToshima Sand — 34.62°N, 137.22°ECalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCalvert — 38.53°N, 76.52°WCalvert — 38.67°N, 76.53°WCalvert — 38.64°N, 76.52°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.74°S, 47.32°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 2.58°S, 43.38°WPirabas — 1.66°S, 45.37°WNyalindung — 7.00°S, 106.63°ECulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.13°N, 79.62°WCulebra — 9.15°N, 79.62°W

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The named rock units Dosinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 199 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 185 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dosinia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Dosinia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,499 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 614 sites for Dosinia, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

275 references

Each of the 1,041 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. 263 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 content3

Picture of Dosinia

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Dosinia concentrica · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:77993

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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 itDosiniini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scopoli 1777