Ervillia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DavilinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Mactroidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Mactroidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Mactroidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 762 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
5 occurrences of Ervillia 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene80%
- Holocene20%
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 Ervillia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ervillia and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Ervillia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
320 taxa- Anomia ephippium2 sites
- Barbatia2 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata2 sites
- Calliostoma conulus2 sites
- Calliostoma zizyphinum2 sites
- Calyptraea chinensis2 sites
- Cavolinia2 sites
- Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum2 sites
- Chrysalida2 sites
- Clio2 sites
- Crepidula2 sites
- Ctena decussata2 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) rotundata2 sites
- Erycina2 sites
- Flexopecten2 sites
- Gibberula2 sites
- Gibbula2 sites
- Glycymeris pilosa2 sites
- Gouldia (Gouldia) minima2 sites
- Homalopoma2 sites
- Janthina2 sites
- Jujubinus striatus2 sites
- Lucinella divaricata2 sites
- Nassarius2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ervillia, 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- Seagrass-Associated Molluscan and Fish Communities from the Early Pleistocene of the Island of Rhodes (Greece)2
- Spectacular preservation of seagrasses and seagrass-associated communities from the Pliocene of Rhodes, Greece1
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary sediments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana1
- Mollusques Pleistocenes de la Cote Francaise des Somalis [Pleistocene molluscs from French Somaliland]1
Each of the 5 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. 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 Ervillia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ervillia 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 itDavilinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Turton 1822