Eontia ponderosa

Eontia ponderosa

Say, 1822 · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Noetia (Eontia)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Noetia (Eontia)
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Noetia (Eontia)
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Noetia (Eontia)
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 43 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 43 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 38 of 43 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 3 of 43 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 35 occurrences2.58 Mya11.7 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

43 occurrences of Eontia 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

43 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

11 formations

Pamlico — 38.55°N, 75.08°WPamlico — 32.08°N, 81.10°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 35.25°N, 76.57°WPamlico — 35.70°N, 75.74°WPamlico — 35.00°N, 76.79°WPamlico — 34.77°N, 76.65°WPamlico — 34.04°N, 77.89°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.90°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 33.56°N, 79.08°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WTalbot — 38.15°N, 76.43°WHorry Clay — 34.97°N, 76.97°WHorry Clay — 33.69°N, 78.89°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WAnastasia — 26.98°N, 80.08°WCaloosahatchee — 26.92°N, 81.99°WWare — 11.85°N, 71.32°W

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The named rock units Eontia ponderosa 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.

Eontia ponderosa and its relatives

Pleistocene

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

Found in the same rock

668 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Eontia 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

16 references

Each of the 43 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. 4 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 Eontia ponderosa

Credit
Say, 1822
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eontia 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 itNoetia (Eontia) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Say 1822)