Hiatellidae

Hiatellidae is a taxonomic family of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs. This family is placed in the order Adapedonta.

Hiatellidae

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
HiatelloideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 241 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 1872 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 5 of 1872 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 1872 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 15 of 1872 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 1872 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 7 of 1872 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 196 of 1872 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 255 of 1872 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 102 of 1872 occurrencesEocene — about 158 of 1872 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 155 of 1872 occurrencesMiocene — about 383 of 1872 occurrencesPliocene — about 185 of 1872 occurrencesPleistocene — about 327 of 1872 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences244–235 Mya — about 5 occurrences235–227 Mya — about 2 occurrences202–193 Mya — about 15 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–160 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences160–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–143 Mya — about 5 occurrences143–134 Mya — about 16 occurrences134–126 Mya — about 53 occurrences126–118 Mya — about 46 occurrences118–109 Mya — about 45 occurrences109–101 Mya — about 34 occurrences101–92 Mya — about 16 occurrences92–84 Mya — about 21 occurrences84–76 Mya — about 36 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 151 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 87 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 67 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 40 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 102 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 111 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 162 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 208 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 645 occurrences241.464 Mya11.7 ka252 Mya0 Mya

1,872 occurrences of Hiatellidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

1,872 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

393 formations

Lefipán — 42.67°S, 69.98°WLefipán — 42.69°S, 69.84°WLefipán — 42.83°S, 69.70°WSubmeseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WSubmeseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WSubmeseta — 64.26°S, 56.66°WSubmeseta — 64.25°S, 56.63°WLillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°ESanta Susana — 34.07°N, 118.55°WSanta Susana — 34.13°N, 118.57°WSanta Susana — 34.22°N, 118.81°WSanta Susana — 34.23°N, 118.74°WSanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.70°WRoca — 36.90°S, 67.92°WRoca — 37.56°S, 69.85°WRoca — 37.54°S, 69.87°WRoca — 37.55°S, 69.83°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.51°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WVaqueros — 33.96°N, 120.07°WVaqueros — 34.04°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 33.68°N, 117.76°WVaqueros — 33.55°N, 117.82°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 119.03°WVaqueros — 34.04°N, 118.88°WVaqueros — 34.07°N, 118.71°WVaqueros — 34.38°N, 118.84°WVaqueros — 34.35°N, 118.92°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.14°WVaqueros — 34.93°N, 119.05°WVaqueros — 34.98°N, 120.21°WVaqueros — 35.27°N, 120.60°WVaqueros — 35.31°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 35.24°N, 120.09°WVaqueros — 35.78°N, 120.99°WVaqueros — 36.07°N, 121.28°WVaqueros — 36.18°N, 121.31°WYorktown — 37.22°N, 76.93°WYorktown — 36.44°N, 77.10°WYorktown — 37.17°N, 76.77°WYorktown — 37.51°N, 77.21°WYorktown — 37.25°N, 76.50°WYorktown — 37.27°N, 76.57°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 37.21°N, 76.69°WYorktown — 37.02°N, 76.58°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.96°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WTimms Point Silt — 33.78°N, 118.35°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WChoptank — 38.53°N, 76.52°WChoptank — 38.38°N, 76.50°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChoptank — 38.73°N, 76.02°WChoptank — 38.38°N, 76.38°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.54°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.83°N, 120.38°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.77°N, 120.48°WAquia — 38.82°N, 76.75°WAquia — 38.75°N, 76.98°WAquia — 38.71°N, 77.02°WAquia — 38.99°N, 76.16°WAquia — 38.60°N, 77.14°WAquia — 38.46°N, 77.27°WAquia — 38.52°N, 77.10°WAquia — 38.90°N, 76.91°WAquia — 38.43°N, 77.38°WAquia — 38.27°N, 77.18°WAquia — 38.50°N, 77.59°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.67°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.61°WClallam — 48.23°N, 124.14°WClallam — 48.27°N, 122.25°WClallam — 48.20°N, 122.11°WClallam — 48.26°N, 124.25°WNarrow Cape — 56.54°N, 154.34°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°WOkarahia Sandstone — 42.57°S, 173.52°EOkarahia Sandstone — 42.55°S, 173.50°EJagüel — 36.55°S, 68.15°WJagüel — 38.13°S, 68.41°WJagüel — 36.83°S, 69.26°WRio Turbio — 51.53°S, 72.30°WRio Turbio — 51.26°S, 72.22°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.17°S, 57.75°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.21°WTemblor — 36.34°N, 120.36°WTemblor — 35.50°N, 119.78°WTemblor — 35.42°N, 119.85°WTemblor — 35.48°N, 119.92°WTemblor — 35.38°N, 120.15°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCalvert — 38.75°N, 76.69°WCalvert — 38.63°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 38.67°N, 76.53°WJacalitos — 36.07°N, 120.44°WJacalitos — 36.08°N, 120.48°WJacalitos — 36.04°N, 120.39°WJacalitos — 36.14°N, 120.64°W

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The named rock units Hiatellidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 369 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 520 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hiatellidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Hiatellidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,909 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,170 sites for Hiatellidae, 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

470 references

Each of the 1,872 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. 458 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 Hiatellidae

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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What may have been alongside itHiatelloidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1824