Paphia vetula

Paphia vetula

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PaphiaPBDB
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 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiocene — about 14 of 17 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 17 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 17 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.9–9.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.2–8.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.5–7.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.4–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–4.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20.45 Mya3.6 Mya23.5 Mya2.1 Mya

17 occurrences of Paphia vetula on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

17 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

5 formations

Preplans Sandstone — 46.22°N, 12.80°ERugo Mizza Sandstone — 46.22°N, 12.80°EMaraldi Sandstone — 46.22°N, 12.80°ECarnide Sandston — 39.92°N, 8.72°WMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°E

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The named rock units Paphia vetula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paphia vetula and its relatives

Miocene

Where Paphia vetula and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

552 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Paphia vetula, 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 17 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 Paphia vetula

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paphia vetula 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 itPaphia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Basterot 1825)