Pandora

Pandora is a genus of small saltwater clams, marine bivalves in the family Pandoridae.

Pandora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PandoridaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
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 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 169 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 169 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 9 of 169 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 169 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 36 of 169 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 34 of 169 occurrencesPleistocene — about 76 of 169 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 7 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 14 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 39 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 70 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

169 occurrences of Pandora 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

169 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

70 formations

Careaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.86°N, 120.46°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.82°N, 120.45°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WTimms Point Silt — 33.78°N, 118.35°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.96°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WPresumpscot — 43.58°N, 70.32°WPresumpscot — 43.50°N, 70.44°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 35.59°N, 76.23°WHorry Clay — 34.97°N, 76.97°WPico — 34.42°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.54°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WChowan RIver — 36.05°N, 76.73°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.21°N, 81.31°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WLillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°ESan Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WAnchor — 34.04°N, 118.40°WErmanovskaya — 58.50°N, 159.17°ECercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCalvert — 38.53°N, 76.52°WCalvert — 38.64°N, 76.52°WKap Kobenhavn — 82.38°N, 21.00°WBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°E

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The named rock units Pandora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 46 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pandora and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pandora and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,402 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 113 sites for Pandora, 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

71 references

Each of the 169 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. 59 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 Pandora

Credit
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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. Bruguière 1797