Pandora (Pandorella) vanwinkleae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Pandora (Pandorella)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pandora
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Pandora
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pandora
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Pandora (Pandorella) vanwinkleae on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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- Oligocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Pandora (Pandorella) vanwinkleae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pandora (Pandorella) vanwinkleae and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Pandora (Pandorella) vanwinkleae and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
110 taxa- Acila (Acila) gettysburgensis4 sites
- Solemya (Acharax) dalli4 sites
- Bruclarkia thor3 sites
- Cochlodesma bainbridgensis3 sites
- Crepidula ungana3 sites
- Cyclocardia hannai3 sites
- Epitonium (Cirsotrema) saundersi3 sites
- Ficus modesta3 sites
- Gyrineum goodspeedi3 sites
- Liracassis rex3 sites
- Macoma lorenzoensis arnoldi3 sites
- Macrocallista cathcartensis3 sites
- Neverita (Neverita) washingtonensis3 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) blakeleyensis3 sites
- Portlandia chehalisensis3 sites
- Priscofusus stewarti3 sites
- Psephaea (Miopleiona) weaveri3 sites
- Pseudoperissolax trophonoides3 sites
- Scaphander washingtonensis gordoni3 sites
- Solariella kincaidi3 sites
- Thracia schencki3 sites
- Turricula mclellani3 sites
- Turritella diversilineata blakeleyensis3 sites
- Aforia clallamensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pandora (Pandorella) vanwinkleae, 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- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington2
- Paleontology of the Marine Tertiary formations of Oregon and Washington2
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 content2

Picture of Pandora (Pandorella) vanwinkleae
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Pandora (Pandorella) glacialis · USNM:IZ:USNM 444667
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPandora (Pandorella) through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tegland 1933)