Paphia

Paphia is a genus of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the subfamily Tapetinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.

Paphia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TapetiniPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 162 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 162 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 9 of 162 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 162 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 162 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 61 of 162 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 48 of 162 occurrencesPleistocene — about 37 of 162 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–35 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–19 Mya — about 11 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 11 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 19 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 33 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 66 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

162 occurrences of Paphia 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

162 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

50 formations

Nyalindung — 7.00°S, 106.63°ENyalindung — 7.48°S, 108.42°EToukoshan — 24.47°N, 120.72°EToshima Sand — 34.62°N, 137.22°EMartinez — 38.00°N, 122.20°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.60°WTogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°ELillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°EChatti Mudstone — 25.25°N, 62.25°EChatti Mudstone — 25.29°N, 62.13°EUpper Bhuban — 23.00°N, 93.00°EPreplans Sandstone — 46.22°N, 12.80°ETalar — 25.33°N, 62.00°ETalar — 25.33°N, 65.50°EOrmara & Jiwani — 25.25°N, 62.25°EOrmara & Jiwani — 25.42°N, 65.50°EWexford Gravels — 52.43°N, 6.33°WSzekou — 22.01°N, 120.72°ENagura Gravel — 24.43°N, 124.23°EPakhachinskaya — 60.42°N, 165.92°EPakhachinskaya — 60.00°N, 165.00°EUkari — 34.80°N, 137.90°EUkari — 34.77°N, 138.00°EChengapara — 25.17°N, 90.67°EOtsuki — 35.75°N, 138.89°ERugo Mizza Sandstone — 46.22°N, 12.80°EMaraldi Sandstone — 46.22°N, 12.80°ESan Martino Calcarenite — 46.22°N, 12.80°EMontello conglomerate — 46.22°N, 12.80°EVigo — 13.00°N, 122.00°EMandul Marl — 3.75°N, 117.65°E

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The named rock units Paphia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 50 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paphia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Paphia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,752 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 90 sites for Paphia, 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

62 references

Each of the 162 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. 50 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 content1

Picture of Paphia

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

No 3D scan of Paphia 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.

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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What may have been alongside itTapetini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Röding 1798