Lucina (Lucinisca) fausta

No picture of Lucina (Lucinisca) fausta 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 Lucina (Lucinisca) fausta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LuciniscaPBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinisca
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Lucinisca
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinisca
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 1.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 1.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pliocene — about 2 of 2 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPleistocene3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.3–3.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.2–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.1 Mya1.3 Mya

2 occurrences of Lucina (Lucinisca) fausta on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

2 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

1 formation

Canoa — 0.20°N, 80.27°W

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The named rock units Lucina (Lucinisca) fausta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Lucina (Lucinisca) fausta and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Lucina (Lucinisca) fausta and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Lucina (Lucinisca) fausta, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 2 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

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No picture of Lucina (Lucinisca) fausta 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 Lucina (Lucinisca) fausta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Lucina (Lucinisca) fausta 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 itLucinisca through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pilsbry and Olsson 1941