Eurhomalea rufa

Manuel Caballer · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- EurhomaleaPBDB
- 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 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Eurhomalea rufa 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
9 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
4 formations
- Pampa del Palo Terrace Formation4
- Estratos de Caldera Formation3
- Lomas Terrace Formation1
- San Juan Terrace Formation1
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The named rock units Eurhomalea rufa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eurhomalea rufa and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Eurhomalea rufa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Mulinia edulis4 sites
- Choromytilus chorus3 sites
- Concholepas concholepas3 sites
- Diplodonta inconspicua3 sites
- Incatella cingulata3 sites
- Mesodesma (Mesodesma) donacium3 sites
- Oliva peruviana3 sites
- Retrotapes lenticularis3 sites
- Semele (Semele) solida3 sites
- Ameghinomya antiqua2 sites
- Calyptraea trochiformis2 sites
- Crassilabrum crassilabrum2 sites
- Crepipatella dilatata2 sites
- Leukoma thaca2 sites
- Nassarius gayi2 sites
- Nucella2 sites
- Tagelus dombeii2 sites
- Transennella2 sites
- Aeneator1 site
- Argopecten purpuratus1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Brachidontes1 site
- Carditella1 site
- Chama pellucida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Eurhomalea rufa, 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
3 references- Carta Caldera, Región de Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica, No. 76, 38 p. 1 mapa escala 1:100.0003
- Pampa del Palo: an anomalous composite marine terrace on the uprising coast of southern Peru3
- Occurrence de Chione broggi (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1943) (Pelecypoda) en depositos litorales cuaternarios del sur del Peru: implicaciones paleoceanograficas3
Each of the 9 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 content2

Picture of Eurhomalea rufa
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Manuel Caballer
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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 itEurhomalea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1818)