Gari

Gari is a genus of bivalve molluscs in the family Psammobiidae, known as sunset shells.

Gari

GrahamBould · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
PsammobiidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Psammobiidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Psammobiidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Psammobiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 145 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 357 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 12 of 357 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 357 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 23 of 357 occurrencesEocene — about 154 of 357 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 29 of 357 occurrencesMiocene — about 53 of 357 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 41 of 357 occurrencesPleistocene — about 40 of 357 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 3 occurrences132–127 Mya — about 2 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–117 Mya — about 3 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences91–86 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences81–76 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences76–71 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–61 Mya — about 13 occurrences61–56 Mya — about 12 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 31 occurrences51–46 Mya — about 30 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 32 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 50 occurrences36–30 Mya — about 22 occurrences30–25 Mya — about 14 occurrences25–20 Mya — about 12 occurrences20–15 Mya — about 12 occurrences15–10 Mya — about 23 occurrences10–5.1 Mya — about 13 occurrences5.1–0 Mya — about 79 occurrences145.06 Mya11.7 ka152 Mya0 Mya

357 occurrences of Gari on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

357 occurrences

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

129 formations

Tejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WTejon — 34.96°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.91°N, 118.99°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WTejon — 46.41°N, 122.98°WLillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°ERoseburg — 43.31°N, 123.12°WRoseburg — 43.01°N, 123.91°WRoseburg — 42.96°N, 123.83°WRoseburg — 43.27°N, 123.45°WRoseburg — 43.23°N, 123.37°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCowlitz — 46.21°N, 123.02°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WMission Valley — 32.96°N, 117.12°WMission Valley — 32.79°N, 117.16°WMission Valley — 32.78°N, 117.14°WMission Valley — 32.91°N, 117.09°WBohio — 9.18°N, 79.88°WBohio — 9.17°N, 79.85°WMartinez — 38.05°N, 122.15°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.60°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 35.65°N, 78.46°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WScripps — 32.80°N, 117.19°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.41°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.54°WCoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.35°ECoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°ECoralline Crag — 52.12°N, 1.55°ELlajas — 34.30°N, 118.69°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.83°N, 120.38°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.77°N, 120.48°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WFlournoy — 43.28°N, 123.08°WFlournoy — 43.26°N, 123.03°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WMeganos — 37.93°N, 121.82°WCoaledo — 43.34°N, 124.38°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.68°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WSantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.26°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.47°WInglis Limestone — 29.02°N, 82.62°WInglis Limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WRio Turbio — 51.53°S, 72.30°W

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The named rock units Gari has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 105 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 80 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gari and its relatives

Eocene

Where Gari and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,460 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 277 sites for Gari, and this reads 240 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

151 references

Each of the 357 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. 139 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 Gari

Credit
GrahamBould
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gari 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Schumacher 1817