Plicatula gibbosa

Plicatula gibbosa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlicatulaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Plicatula
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Plicatula
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Plicatula
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 112 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 112 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 63 of 112 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 40 of 112 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 24 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 29 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 11 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 11 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 21 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

112 occurrences of Plicatula gibbosa on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

112 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

32 formations

Yorktown — 35.54°N, 77.67°WYorktown — 35.51°N, 77.62°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.96°WYorktown — 37.15°N, 76.74°WYorktown — 35.15°N, 77.14°WWaccamaw — 34.29°N, 78.51°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.23°N, 77.94°WWaccamaw — 34.07°N, 78.27°WWaccamaw — 33.97°N, 78.39°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 32.91°N, 79.95°WCaloosahatchee — 25.97°N, 81.73°WCaloosahatchee — 25.95°N, 81.36°WCaloosahatchee — 25.91°N, 81.36°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WDuplin — 35.00°N, 78.32°WDuplin — 35.00°N, 78.09°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WDuplin — 34.62°N, 79.01°WDuplin — 34.50°N, 79.11°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WBear Bluff — 33.90°N, 78.84°WBear Bluff — 34.29°N, 78.51°WBear Bluff — 26.76°N, 81.44°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WChowan RIver — 36.05°N, 76.73°WWare — 11.85°N, 71.32°WWare — 11.96°N, 71.28°WWare — 11.82°N, 71.41°WFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 71.00°WKirkwood — 39.46°N, 75.30°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WGoose Creek — 33.33°N, 80.15°WChagres Sandstone — 9.15°N, 79.96°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WBelmont — 32.33°N, 64.69°WDevonshire — 32.30°N, 64.86°WAnastasia — 26.33°N, 80.13°W

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The named rock units Plicatula gibbosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plicatula gibbosa and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Plicatula gibbosa and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

1,926 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Plicatula gibbosa, 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

34 references

Each of the 112 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. 22 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 Plicatula gibbosa

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Plicatula gibbosa was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itPlicatula through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1801