Fulvia mutica

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FulviaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cardiidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Cardiidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardiidae
- 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.
8 occurrences of Fulvia mutica 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
8 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
3 formations
- Toshima Sand Formation · Toyohashi Group5
- Akasawa Silt Formation · Toyohashi Group2
- Sakishima Formation1
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The named rock units Fulvia mutica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fulvia mutica and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Fulvia mutica and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
242 taxa- Dosinia (Dosinella)7 sites
- Anomia6 sites
- Rapana6 sites
- Batillaria5 sites
- Macoma (Macoma)5 sites
- Panopea5 sites
- Scapharca satowi5 sites
- Anisodonta4 sites
- Cardita4 sites
- Dosinia (Phacosoma)4 sites
- Glossaulax didyma4 sites
- Neverita (Glossaulax)4 sites
- Ostrea (Ostrea)4 sites
- Paphia (Paphia)4 sites
- Pecten (Pecten) albicans4 sites
- Raeta4 sites
- Scapharca broughtoni4 sites
- Arcopagia3 sites
- Babylonia japonica3 sites
- Barnea (Umitakea)3 sites
- Chlamys (Nomurachlamys)3 sites
- Coralliophila3 sites
- Corbicula japonica sandaiformis3 sites
- Dentalium (Paradentalium) octangulatum hexagonum3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Fulvia mutica, 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
2 references- Summary of the geology and paleontology of the Atsumi Peninsula, Aichi Prefecture, Japan7
- Pleistocene molluscan fauna of the Sakishima Formation, Shima Peninsula, central Japan1
Each of the 8 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 content2

Picture of Fulvia mutica
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFulvia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reeve 1844)