Euvola bella

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EuvolaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pectinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 1.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 129 ka.
48 occurrences of Euvola bella on record. 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
48 occurrences- Pliocene64%
- Pleistocene36%
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
10 formations
- Careaga Sandstone Formation11
- Pico Formation4
- Fernando Formation3
- Lomita Marl Formation2
- Santa Barbara Formation2
- San Diego Formation2
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The named rock units Euvola bella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
535 taxa- Dendostrea vespertina19 sites
- Patinopecten healeyi15 sites
- Chlamys hastata14 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana12 sites
- Pododesmus (Monia) macrochisma12 sites
- Chlamys opuntia11 sites
- Lyropecten cerrosensis11 sites
- Saccella taphria10 sites
- Panopea generosa9 sites
- Chlamys rubida8 sites
- Cryptonatica affinis8 sites
- Fusitriton oregonensis8 sites
- Leopecten stearnsii8 sites
- Compsomyax subdiaphana7 sites
- Lucinoma annulata7 sites
- Parvilucina tenuisculpta7 sites
- Anadara trilineata6 sites
- Californiconus californicus6 sites
- Crockerella conradiana6 sites
- Euclia tritonidea6 sites
- Hima cooperi6 sites
- Hima mendica6 sites
- Mitrella gausapata6 sites
- Mitrella tuberosa6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Euvola bella, 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
19 references- Geology and paleontology of the Santa Maria District California11
- Pliocene deposits north of Simi Valley, California6
- Tertiary and Quaternary pectens of California6
- Paleoenvironmental implications of fossiliferous Miocene and Pliocene strata on San Clemente Island, California4
- Geology of southeastern Ventura basin, Los Angeles County, California4
- Expedition to the Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico, in 1925, VII. Contribution to the geology and paleontology of the Tertiary of Cedros Island and adjacent parts of Lower California3
- Geology and Paleontology of a Portion of Los Angeles, California2
- Age and paleoenvironmental significance of mega-invertebrates from the "San Pedro" Formation in the Coyote Hills, Fullerton and Buena Park, Orange County, Southern California1
- A Neogene section northeastern San Clemente Island, California1
- A new species of Neadmete (Neogastropoda) from the Pliocene of California1
- A Late Pliocene macrofossil fauna of Newport Beach, Orange County, California1
- Additional notes on the Pliocene and Pleistocene fauna of the Turtle Bay area, Baja California, Mexico1
Each of the 48 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. 7 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 Euvola bella
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Euvola bella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1856)