Panopea clausa

Panopea clausa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PanopeaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Panopea
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Panopea
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Panopea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 86.1 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 50 of 52 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 52 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 52 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 52 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 4 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 10 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 8 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 10 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 10 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 7 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83.6 Mya56 Mya87 Mya33 Mya

52 occurrences of Panopea clausa on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

52 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

7 formations

Lefipán — 42.67°S, 69.98°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.85°WOkarahia Sandstone — 42.57°S, 173.52°EOkarahia Sandstone — 42.55°S, 173.50°ELopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.17°S, 57.75°WRoca — 37.56°S, 69.85°WRoca — 37.54°S, 69.87°WConway Siltstone — 42.57°S, 173.52°ELefipan — 42.84°S, 69.71°WLefipan — 42.68°S, 69.84°WRio Turbio — 51.53°S, 72.30°W

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The named rock units Panopea clausa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Panopea clausa and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Panopea clausa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

258 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Panopea clausa, 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

9 references

Each of the 52 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. 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 Panopea clausa

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Panopea clausa was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itPanopea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wilckens 1910)