Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana projecta

Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana projecta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritanaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Dosinia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Dosinia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Dosinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 7.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesMiocene — about 20 of 20 occurrencesMiocene23–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23.5 Mya15.5 Mya

20 occurrences of Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana projecta 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

20 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

1 formation

Vaqueros — 33.54°N, 117.78°WVaqueros — 33.68°N, 117.76°WVaqueros — 33.55°N, 117.82°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 119.03°WVaqueros — 34.35°N, 118.92°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 — 35.27°N, 120.60°WVaqueros — 35.31°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 35.25°N, 120.06°WVaqueros — 35.82°N, 121.06°WVaqueros — 36.07°N, 121.28°WVaqueros — 36.18°N, 121.31°W

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The named rock units Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana projecta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana projecta and its relatives

Miocene

Where Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana projecta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

146 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana projecta, 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

1 reference

Each of the 20 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana projecta

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itDosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Loel and Corey 1932