Pinctada

Searched as Margaritifera. The Paleobiology Database treats Pinctada as the accepted name.

Margaritifera is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve molluscs in the family Margaritiferidae, the freshwater pearl mussels.

Pinctada

Tom Meijer · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
PteriidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Pteriidae

Time the record covers

At least 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 68 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 68 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 68 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 68 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 68 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 68 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 68 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 68 occurrencesEocene — about 9 of 68 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 68 occurrencesMiocene — about 25 of 68 occurrencesPliocene — about 6 of 68 occurrencesPleistocene — about 14 of 68 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences226–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences177–169 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences153–145 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences145–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–105 Mya — about 3 occurrences105–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–89 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–48 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences48–40 Mya — about 5 occurrences40–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 19 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 25 occurrences201.4 Mya11.7 ka242 Mya0 Mya

68 occurrences of Pinctada on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

68 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

26 formations

Dry Creek Sands — 34.85°S, 138.60°EDry Creek Sands — 34.88°S, 138.49°EDry Creek Sands — 34.90°S, 138.56°EDry Creek Sands — 34.95°S, 138.57°EElrhaz — 16.70°N, 9.33°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 47.92°N, 10.59°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.16°N, 10.11°EYubari — 43.50°N, 142.00°EWakkanabi — 43.50°N, 142.00°ELillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°EAlexandria — 33.75°S, 25.67°EAlexandria — 33.84°S, 25.61°ESanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°EBurgeschleinitz — 48.63°N, 15.78°EBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WBelmont — 32.33°N, 64.69°WRushin — 42.98°N, 144.38°EShakubetsu — 42.98°N, 144.38°EAnastasia — 26.33°N, 80.13°WAbrakurrie Limestone — 31.77°S, 127.02°EBibai — 43.50°N, 142.00°EAkabira — 43.50°N, 142.00°EAshibetsu — 43.50°N, 142.00°ETeshibetsu — 43.00°N, 144.42°EKattendijk — 51.25°N, 4.28°EWaimanalo — 21.30°N, 158.10°WBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.43°EHorokabetsu — 43.34°N, 141.97°EGerharsreit — 47.81°N, 12.65°E

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The named rock units Pinctada has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pinctada and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pinctada and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

907 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Pinctada, 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

35 references

Each of the 68 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. 23 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 content2

Picture of Pinctada

Credit
Tom Meijer
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jameson 1901