Dosinia (Dosinia) whitneyi

Dosinia (Dosinia) whitneyi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Dosinia (Dosinia)PBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 37 occurrencesOligocene — about 26 of 37 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 11 of 37 occurrencesMiocene34–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27.3 Mya15.98 Mya34.4 Mya11.1 Mya

37 occurrences of Dosinia (Dosinia) whitneyi on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

37 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

7 formations

Pleito — 34.99°N, 119.19°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.22°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.25°WTemblor — 36.34°N, 120.36°WTemblor — 35.50°N, 119.78°WTemblor — 35.42°N, 119.85°WTemblor — 35.40°N, 119.81°WTemblor — 35.46°N, 119.87°WVaqueros — 33.68°N, 117.76°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 119.03°WVaqueros — 34.35°N, 118.92°WVaqueros — 34.92°N, 119.13°WAstoria — 43.40°N, 124.28°WAstoria — 45.22°N, 123.97°WClallam — 48.27°N, 122.25°WJewett — 35.49°N, 118.85°WSan Ramon — 37.95°N, 122.24°W

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The named rock units Dosinia (Dosinia) whitneyi 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 (Dosinia) whitneyi and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Dosinia (Dosinia) whitneyi and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

224 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Dosinia (Dosinia) whitneyi, 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

9 references

Each of the 37 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 content2

Picture of Dosinia (Dosinia) whitneyi

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Dosinia concentrica · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:77993

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1866)