Noetia macdonaldi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NoetiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Noetia
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Noetia
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Noetia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
9 occurrences of Noetia macdonaldi 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
9 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Noetia macdonaldi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Noetia macdonaldi and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Noetia macdonaldi and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
92 taxa- Cancellaria (Pyruclia) cibarcola3 sites
- Conus molis3 sites
- Anadara (Grandiarca) patricia2 sites
- Architectonica nobilis2 sites
- Clementia (Clementia) dariena2 sites
- Gordanops baranoanus2 sites
- Malea ringens2 sites
- Oliva cylindrica2 sites
- Psammacoma gatunensis2 sites
- Raeta undulata2 sites
- Solenosteira (Fusinosteira) falconensis2 sites
- Stigmaulax guppiana2 sites
- Terebra (Paraterebra) sulcifera2 sites
- Ventricolaria blandiana2 sites
- Anadara (Cunearca) cacica1 site
- Anadara (Cunearca) lloydi1 site
- Anadara (Grandiarca) usiacurii1 site
- Anadara (Larkinia) notabilis1 site
- Anadara (Rasia) actinophora1 site
- Anadara (Rasia) dariensis1 site
- Anadara (Tosarca) veatchi1 site
- Anomia mamillaris1 site
- Arcinella antiquata1 site
- Argopecten demiurgus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Noetia macdonaldi, 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
3 references- The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica5
- Marine Miocene and related deposits of North Colombia3
- Algunos moluscos del Terciario Medio de Colombia1
Each of the 9 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 Noetia macdonaldi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Noetia macdonaldi 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 itNoetia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1912)