Dosiniopsis lenticularis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DosiniopsisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 61.66 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
21 occurrences of Dosiniopsis lenticularis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
21 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
3 formations
- Aquia Formation · Pamunkey Group17
- Tuscahoma Formation · Wilcox Group2
- Nanafalia Formation · Midway Group1
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The named rock units Dosiniopsis lenticularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dosiniopsis lenticularis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Dosiniopsis lenticularis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Kapalmerella mortoni2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Aetobatis arcuatus1 site
- Aetobatus irregularis1 site
- Aetomylaeus dixoni1 site
- Athleta1 site
- Athleta petrosa1 site
- Bathytormus alaeformis1 site
- Buccinanops1 site
- Calorhadia (Calorhadia) pharcida1 site
- Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis1 site
- Calyptraphorus1 site
- Carcharias macrotus1 site
- Carcharodon hastalis1 site
- Caricella1 site
- Crassatella aquiana1 site
- Crassatella tumidula1 site
- Cubitostrea sellaeformis1 site
- Cucullaea gigantea1 site
- Cuneocorbula subengonata1 site
- Dhondtichlamys greggi1 site
- Euspira marylandica1 site
- Fusus1 site
- Fusus (Levifusus) trabeatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dosiniopsis lenticularis, 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
4 references- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda18
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene Mollusks of the Southern and Eastern United States Part II. Gastropoda1
- Contributions to the Eocene fauna of the Middle Atlantic slope1
Each of the 21 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 Dosiniopsis lenticularis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dosiniopsis lenticularis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itDosiniopsis through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rogers 1838)