Petricola

Petricola is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Petricolinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.

Petricola

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PetricolinaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
boringPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
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 2 of 160 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 160 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 160 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 160 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 160 occurrencesMiocene — about 14 of 160 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 160 occurrencesPleistocene — about 118 of 160 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 7 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 139 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

160 occurrences of Petricola 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

160 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

41 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WPamlico — 32.08°N, 81.10°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 35.14°N, 76.77°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChoptank — 38.45°N, 76.46°WChoptank — 38.38°N, 76.38°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.23°N, 77.94°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WMichoud — 30.05°N, 89.96°WDuplin — 34.50°N, 79.11°WDuplin — 34.62°N, 79.01°WVaqueros — 33.68°N, 117.76°WVaqueros — 35.31°N, 120.04°WPampa del Palo Terrace — 17.58°S, 71.17°WTamiami — 26.14°N, 81.77°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WKef El Haroun — 33.58°N, 7.65°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.84°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.11°S, 70.83°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.15°S, 70.93°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 71.00°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WTalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°W

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The named rock units Petricola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 61 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Petricola and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Petricola and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,247 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 103 sites for Petricola, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

71 references

Each of the 160 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. 59 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 Petricola

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Petricola 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

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Lamarck 1801