Kuia

A picture published with the record for Kuia. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
VenerinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 19 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 19 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 19 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 19 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.8–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33.9 Mya11.63 Mya38.4 Mya4.7 Mya

19 occurrences of Kuia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

19 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

6 formations

Naseby Greensand — 44.98°S, 170.28°ENaseby Greensand — 45.02°S, 170.12°EOtekaike Limestone — 45.79°S, 170.51°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.86°S, 170.67°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.84°S, 170.52°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°ERifle Butts — 45.08°S, 170.95°EMount Brown — 44.16°S, 171.10°EMount Brown — 44.03°S, 170.72°EIhungia — 40.13°S, 176.55°EWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°E

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The named rock units Kuia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kuia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Kuia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

171 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Kuia, 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

7 references

Each of the 19 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 content1

Picture of Kuia

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marwick 1927