Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans

Dosinia elegans, or the elegant dosinia, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Veneridae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, ranging from North Carolina to Texas.

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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 7.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 7 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 38 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 26 of 38 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–2.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences7.246 Mya129 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

38 occurrences of Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

38 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

10 formations

Caloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.21°N, 81.31°WAnastasia — 26.65°N, 80.45°WAnastasia — 26.93°N, 80.09°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.63°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WPamlico — 32.85°N, 80.05°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WDuplin — 34.62°N, 79.01°WTamiami — 26.72°N, 81.61°WCaujarao — 11.45°N, 69.57°W

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The named rock units Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

981 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans, 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

14 references

Each of the 38 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. 2 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

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No picture of Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans 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.

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 itDosinia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1838)