Lucina wattsi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LucinaPBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucina
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Lucina
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Lucina wattsi 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
4 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Lucina wattsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lucina wattsi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Lucina wattsi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
97 taxa- Balanus4 sites
- Calyptraea filosa4 sites
- Kewia fairbanksi4 sites
- Califrapana vaquerosensis3 sites
- Calyptraea inornata3 sites
- Chlamys sespeensis3 sites
- Crenostrea eldridgei3 sites
- Crepidula diminutiva3 sites
- Dallocardia vaquerosense3 sites
- Diplodonta orbella3 sites
- Felaniella (Felaniella) harfordi3 sites
- Lucinoma acutilineata3 sites
- Macoma (Psammacoma) arctata3 sites
- Macoma nasuta3 sites
- Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis3 sites
- Turritella inezana3 sites
- Acteon2 sites
- Anomia vaquerosensis2 sites
- Calyptraea costellata2 sites
- Clavocerithium santana2 sites
- Clementia (Egesta) pertenuis2 sites
- Crassostrea vaquerosensis2 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinella) merriami2 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Lucina wattsi, 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
2 references- The Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene of California. I. Paleontology3
- A microfauna from the Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene, Simi Valley, Ventura County, California1
Each of the 4 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 Lucina wattsi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Lucina wattsi 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 itLucina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Loel and Corey 1932