Dosinia (Asa)

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DosiniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Dosinia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Dosinia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Dosinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
19 occurrences of Dosinia (Asa) 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
19 occurrences- Miocene37%
- Pliocene47%
- Pleistocene16%
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
9 formations
- Lillo Formation7
- Khari Nadi Formation2
- Chhasra Formation2
- Talar Formation1
- Chatti Mudstone Formation1
- Ormara & Jiwani Formation1
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The named rock units Dosinia (Asa) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dosinia (Asa) and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Dosinia (Asa) and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
411 taxa- Dosinia (Dosinisca) wynnei4 sites
- Solecurtus4 sites
- Turritella4 sites
- Anadara3 sites
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata3 sites
- Anadara (Cunearca) ferruginea3 sites
- Anadara (Tegillarca) granosa3 sites
- Anomia3 sites
- Architectonica3 sites
- Cardium3 sites
- Chlamys3 sites
- Clementia (Clementia) papyracea3 sites
- Conus3 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinisca) peralta3 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinisca) vredenburgi3 sites
- Gyrineum3 sites
- Hemicardium3 sites
- Mactrinula3 sites
- Nassarius3 sites
- Natica3 sites
- Nucula3 sites
- Nuculana3 sites
- Oliva3 sites
- Paphia3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Dosinia (Asa), 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
7 references- The Neogene Bivalvia (Heterodonta and Anomalodesmata) and Scaphopoda from Kallo and Doel (Oost Vlaanderen, Belgium)7
- The oldest record of the bivalve Dosinisca Dall and its implications4
- Neogene and Quaternary Mollusca from the Makran Coast, Pakistan3
- Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Gastropoda (in part) and Lamellibranchiata2
- Die molluskenfauna (Hermmorium, Untermiozän) aus der Kiesgrube kirnke bei Werder (Nordwest-Niedersachsen)1
- Eocene Mollusca from the vicinity of McCulloch's Bridge, Waihao River, South Canterbury, New Zealand: Paleoecology and systematics1
- Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand1
Each of the 19 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. 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 content1

Picture of Dosinia (Asa)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- manelor
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Dosinia (Asa) 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 itDosinia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Basterot 1825)