Katherinella smithvillensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KatherinellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Katherinella smithvillensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
13 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
4 formations
- Stone City Formation9
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Crockett Formation · Claiborne Group1
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Katherinella smithvillensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Katherinella smithvillensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Katherinella smithvillensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
286 taxa- Orthoyoldia psammotaea10 sites
- Tellina (Eurytellina) mooreana10 sites
- Calorhadia compsa9 sites
- Vokesula smithvillensis9 sites
- Notocorbula texana8 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis8 sites
- Anomia ephippioides7 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) uxorispalmeri7 sites
- Calorhadia (Litorhadia) evanescentior7 sites
- Caryocorbula deusseni7 sites
- Pachecoa (Pachecoa) sabinica7 sites
- Pteropsella7 sites
- Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea) petropolitana6 sites
- Litorhadia6 sites
- Pachecoa6 sites
- Crassostrea5 sites
- Venericor planicosta5 sites
- Abra (Abra) petropolitana4 sites
- Architectonica4 sites
- Athleta petrosa4 sites
- Bonellitia parilis4 sites
- Buccitriton texanum4 sites
- Cochlespira4 sites
- Cochlespirella4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Katherinella smithvillensis, 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
4 references- Pelecypoda from the type locality of the Stone City beds (Middle Eocene) of Texas6
- Community structure and evaluation of trophic analysis in paleoecology Stone City Formation (Middle Eocene, Texas)3
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda3
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
Each of the 13 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. 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
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No picture of Katherinella smithvillensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Katherinella smithvillensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Katherinella smithvillensis 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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What may have been alongside itKatherinella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stenzel et al. 1957