Penitella

Penitella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MartesiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pholadidae
Life habit
boringPBDB, for Pholadidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Pholadidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 2 of 63 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 63 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 63 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 46 of 63 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 9 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 34 occurrences23.04 Mya129 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

63 occurrences of Penitella 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

63 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

17 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.17°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.63°N, 117.89°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.84°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WEtolonskaya — 58.42°N, 159.00°EIl'inskaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°ESankebetsu — 44.36°N, 141.70°EFoxen Mudstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WKuluvenskaya — 58.50°N, 159.17°EYaponskikh Kamney — 60.22°N, 165.50°EBear Lake — 55.20°N, 161.59°WAusinskaya — 47.05°N, 142.06°EPomyrskaya — 54.16°N, 142.56°EMerced — 43.39°N, 124.28°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WTimms Point Silt — 33.71°N, 118.27°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°W

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The named rock units Penitella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Penitella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Penitella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,169 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Penitella, 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

28 references

Each of the 63 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. 16 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 Penitella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Penitella conradi · usnm:invertebrate zoology:334654

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Valenciennes 1846)