Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana
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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 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
45 occurrences of Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
45 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Vaqueros Formation33
- Temblor Formation7
- San Lorenzo Formation2
- Jewett Formation1
- Sespe Formation1
- Round Mountain Formation1
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The named rock units Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana and its relatives
MioceneWhere Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
250 taxa- Balanus21 sites
- Dallocardia vaquerosense20 sites
- Turritella inezana18 sites
- Polinices (Neverita) reclusianus andersoni17 sites
- Crenomytilus expansus16 sites
- Hybolophus granti16 sites
- Lucinoma acutilineata16 sites
- Macrochlamis magnolia16 sites
- Anomia vaquerosensis15 sites
- Clementia conradiana15 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) temblorensis12 sites
- Panopea generosa12 sites
- Chlamys sespeensis11 sites
- Macoma nasuta11 sites
- Mammalia11 sites
- Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis11 sites
- Calyptraea filosa10 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinella) merriami10 sites
- Crassostrea vaquerosensis9 sites
- Glycymeris9 sites
- Pycnodonte (Pycnodonte) ynezana9 sites
- Saxidomus vaquerosensis9 sites
- Turritella ocoyana9 sites
- Vaquerosella vaquerosensis9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana, 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- The Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene of California. I. Paleontology29
- Stratigraphy and paleontology of the marine Neogene formations of the Coalinga region, California7
- Stratigraphy, paleontology, and geology of the Central Santa Cruz Mountains, California Coast Ranges2
- Geology of the Northern Channel Islands2
- Geology of the Northern Santa Ana Mountains, California1
- Stratigraphic relations of phosphate- and gypsum-bearing Upper Miocene strata, upper Sespe Creek, Ventura County, California1
- New mollusks from the Round Mountain Silt (Temblor) Miocene of California1
- A Miocene long-beaked porpoise from California1
- Notes on the Vaqueros and Temblor formations of the California Miocene with descriptions of new species1
Each of the 45 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
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No picture of Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana 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) margaritana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana 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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wiedey 1928)