Lucinisca

Lucinisca is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Lucininae of the family Lucinidae.

Lucinisca

Marie HENNION · CC BY 4.0 · 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
LucininaePBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 258 occurrencesPaleocene — about 4 of 258 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 258 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 25 of 258 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 77 of 258 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 62 of 258 occurrencesPleistocene — about 89 of 258 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 8 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 8 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 7 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 10 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 10 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 8 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 12 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 14 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 28 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 52 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 84 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

258 occurrences of Lucinisca on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

258 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

67 formations

Byram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WPancho Rico — 36.24°N, 121.29°WPancho Rico — 36.06°N, 121.19°WPancho Rico — 35.89°N, 121.05°WPancho Rico — 35.99°N, 120.91°WPancho Rico — 36.19°N, 120.86°WPancho Rico — 36.10°N, 120.88°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.80°WPancho Rico — 35.89°N, 120.56°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WTowsley — 34.34°N, 118.54°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.51°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.55°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WGatun — 9.29°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WJackson Bluff — 30.63°N, 86.17°WMint Spring — 32.27°N, 89.99°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WMint Spring — 32.47°N, 90.84°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.01°N, 83.06°WQuebradillas Limestone — 18.47°N, 66.99°WImperial — 33.41°N, 116.06°WKincaid — 30.23°N, 97.52°WKincaid — 29.89°N, 97.67°WKincaid — 31.31°N, 96.63°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.76°N, 79.68°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°W

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The named rock units Lucinisca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lucinisca and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Lucinisca and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,921 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 183 sites for Lucinisca, and this reads all 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

83 references

Each of the 258 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. 71 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 content1

Picture of Lucinisca

Credit
Marie HENNION
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lucinisca 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.

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 itLucininae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1901)