Hiatella

Hiatella is a genus of small saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Hiatellidae.

Hiatella

Jan Johan ter Poorten; modified by Tom Meijer · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
HiatellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
boringPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 239 million years on record.

The record covers at least 239.48 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 454 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 454 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 12 of 454 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 454 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 454 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 454 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 454 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 454 occurrencesEocene — about 24 of 454 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 13 of 454 occurrencesMiocene — about 86 of 454 occurrencesPliocene — about 43 of 454 occurrencesPleistocene — about 193 of 454 occurrences246–238 Mya — about 1 occurrence205–197 Mya — about 10 occurrences197–189 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–148 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences148–140 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences107–99 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences99–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–74 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences74–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–41 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences41–33 Mya — about 24 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 9 occurrences25–16 Mya — about 30 occurrences16–8.2 Mya — about 50 occurrences8.2–0 Mya — about 319 occurrences239.48 Mya11.7 ka246 Mya0 Mya

454 occurrences of Hiatella 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

454 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

86 formations

Submeseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WSubmeseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WSubmeseta — 64.26°S, 56.66°WSubmeseta — 64.25°S, 56.63°WNarrow Cape — 56.54°N, 154.34°WPresumpscot — 43.64°N, 70.26°WPresumpscot — 43.63°N, 70.05°WPresumpscot — 43.31°N, 69.78°WPresumpscot — 44.91°N, 66.99°WPresumpscot — 43.35°N, 70.50°WPresumpscot — 43.91°N, 69.97°WPresumpscot — 43.84°N, 70.10°WPresumpscot — 44.13°N, 68.87°WNorwich Crag — 52.58°N, 1.38°EYorktown — 37.25°N, 76.50°WYorktown — 37.21°N, 76.69°WLillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°ENarrrow Cape Formaton — 56.54°N, 154.34°WGubik — 70.90°N, 155.96°WGubik — 69.99°N, 151.62°WGubik — 70.07°N, 151.39°WGubik — 69.35°N, 162.80°WGubik — 71.39°N, 156.48°WChoptank — 38.73°N, 76.02°WChoptank — 38.41°N, 76.48°WChoptank — 38.52°N, 76.51°WChoptank — 38.38°N, 76.38°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChamplain Clay — 45.75°N, 62.72°WChamplain Clay — 47.55°N, 52.67°WChamplain Clay — 45.18°N, 73.30°WChamplain Clay — 45.50°N, 73.58°WChamplain Clay — 45.85°N, 71.18°WKap Kobenhavn — 82.38°N, 21.00°WKap Kobenhavn — 82.47°N, 21.00°WKap Kobenhavn — 82.54°N, 20.50°WKap Kobenhavn — 81.00°N, 21.00°WBerada — 51.10°N, 5.80°EKirkwood — 39.46°N, 75.30°WKirkwood — 39.47°N, 75.35°WKirkwood — 39.38°N, 75.22°WJinji — 22.16°N, 112.50°EUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WDry Creek Sands — 34.85°S, 138.60°EDry Creek Sands — 34.91°S, 138.56°EDry Creek Sands — 34.95°S, 138.57°ESt Mary's — 37.66°N, 76.75°WSt Mary's — 37.56°N, 76.78°WRed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°EJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WChamplain Clay — 43.67°N, 70.29°WChamplain Clay — 44.61°N, 67.93°WChamplain Clay — 44.54°N, 73.34°WSaxicava Clay — 49.58°N, 57.93°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WTolo Channel — 22.45°N, 114.28°E

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The named rock units Hiatella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 62 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 229 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hiatella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Hiatella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,499 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 254 sites for Hiatella, 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

126 references

Each of the 454 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. 114 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 content2

Picture of Hiatella

Credit
Jan Johan ter Poorten; modified by Tom Meijer
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Hiatella arctica · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:194525

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itHiatellidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Daudin 1801