Pinctada

Pinctada

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
PteriidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Pteriidae

Time the record covers

At least 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 35 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 35 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 35 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 35 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 35 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 35 occurrencesMiocene — about 9 of 35 occurrencesPliocene — about 5 of 35 occurrencesPleistocene — about 14 of 35 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences226–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–105 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences105–97 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences97–89 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 24 occurrences201.4 Mya11.7 ka242 Mya0 Mya

35 occurrences of Pinctada 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

35 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

14 formations

Dry Creek Sands — 34.85°S, 138.60°EDry Creek Sands — 34.88°S, 138.49°EDry Creek Sands — 34.90°S, 138.56°EDry Creek Sands — 34.95°S, 138.57°ELillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°EAlexandria — 33.75°S, 25.67°EAlexandria — 33.84°S, 25.61°EBurgeschleinitz — 48.63°N, 15.78°EBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WBelmont — 32.33°N, 64.69°WAnastasia — 26.33°N, 80.13°WAbrakurrie Limestone — 31.77°S, 127.02°EKattendijk — 51.25°N, 4.28°EWaimanalo — 21.30°N, 158.10°WBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.43°EGerharsreit — 47.81°N, 12.65°EElrhaz — 16.70°N, 9.33°EBryant Creek — 34.08°S, 139.69°E

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The named rock units Pinctada has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pinctada and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pinctada and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

907 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Pinctada, 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

24 references

Each of the 35 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. 12 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 Pinctada

Credit
Didier Descouens
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Pinctada longisquamosa · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:302080

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 itPteriidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ršding 1798)