Pinna vexillum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PinnaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pinna
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Pinna
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pinna
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
4 occurrences of Pinna vexillum 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
4 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Pinna vexillum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pinna vexillum and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pinna vexillum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Atys naucum1 site
- Aulica (Aulica) scapha1 site
- Cardita1 site
- Cerithidea (Cerithideopsilla) jenkinsi1 site
- Clementia (Clementia) papyracea1 site
- Cytherea1 site
- Dentalium (Laevidentalium)1 site
- Dolium hochstetteri1 site
- Kapalmerella ranikoti1 site
- Mammilla1 site
- Natica callosior1 site
- Oliva funebralis1 site
- Placuna (Placuna) placenta1 site
- Vermetus javanus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pinna vexillum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Fossil fauna from the Tertiary of Garo Hills, Assam2
- Skwarko, 19941
- Die Tertiärschichten auf Java. Nach den Entdecjungen von Fr. Junghuhn1
Each of the 4 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 Pinna vexillum
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pinna vexillum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPinna through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Born 1778)