Ervilia
Searched as Ervilia dissita podolica. The Paleobiology Database treats Ervilia as the accepted name.
Ervilia is a genus of marine clams in the family Semelidae.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SemelidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.8 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
2 occurrences of Ervilia on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Ervilia 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.
Ervilia and its relatives
MioceneWhere Ervilia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
2,098 taxa- Anadara26 sites
- Parvilucina24 sites
- Semele21 sites
- Mitrella20 sites
- Tectonatica19 sites
- Acteocina18 sites
- Nassarius (Uzita)18 sites
- Nuculana18 sites
- Calyptraea centralis17 sites
- Cancellaria17 sites
- Chlamys17 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula)17 sites
- Sulcularia17 sites
- Yoldia17 sites
- Anomia16 sites
- Crassinella16 sites
- Macrocallista maculata16 sites
- Pseudochama16 sites
- Turritella16 sites
- Anadara (Diluvarca) santarosana15 sites
- Lirophora15 sites
- Nucula15 sites
- Olivella15 sites
- Architectonica14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 125 sites for Ervilia, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
2 references- Molluscs as a major part of subtropical shallow-water carbonate production - an example from a Middle Miocene oolite shoal (Upper Serravallian, Austria)1
- Zur Grenzziehung Torton/Sarmat im Gebiet von Cluj-Turda (Siebenbuergen, Rumaenien) auf Grund mikro- und makrofaunistischer Untersuchungen1
Each of the 2 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 Ervilia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ervilia 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Ervilia”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSemelidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Turton 1822