Dosinia ponderosa

Dosinia ponderosa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
ponderous dosiniaPBDB
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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 104 occurrencesMiocene — about 18 of 104 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 43 of 104 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 44 of 104 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.4–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–7.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.1–6.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.3–5.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.5–4.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 15 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 22 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 17 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 18 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

104 occurrences of Dosinia ponderosa 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

104 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

25 formations

Pico — 34.37°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.47°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.86°N, 120.46°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.77°N, 120.48°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.76°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.29°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WTowsley — 34.34°N, 118.54°WCanoa — 0.20°N, 80.27°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WAlhajuela — 9.21°N, 79.63°WCoquimbo — 30.33°S, 71.50°WCoquimbo — 28.96°S, 71.49°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.33°N, 79.89°WTaime — 4.32°S, 81.25°WSan Marcos — 26.00°N, 111.14°WCharco Azul — 8.55°N, 83.00°WCharco Azul — 8.03°N, 82.92°WMulege — 27.05°N, 111.97°WSan Diego — 32.49°N, 117.12°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.24°WZorritos — 3.67°S, 80.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WPisco — 14.20°S, 76.12°WLa Portada — 23.40°S, 70.53°WMancora Tablazo — 4.32°S, 81.25°WPancho Rico — 35.74°N, 120.83°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WJacalitos — 36.14°N, 120.64°WEstratos de Agua Amarga — 27.05°S, 70.72°W

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The named rock units Dosinia ponderosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dosinia ponderosa and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Dosinia ponderosa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,427 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 81 sites for Dosinia ponderosa, 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

39 references

Each of the 104 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. 27 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

Media content1

Picture of Dosinia ponderosa

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Dosinia ponderosa 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 PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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