Profulvia

Unio tumidus Philipsson, 1788, a relative of Profulvia — not Profulvia itself

Not Profulvia. This is Unio tumidus Philipsson, 1788, a relative.

-919270953 · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
ProfulviiniPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cardiidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Cardiidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 21 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 21 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 15 of 21 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 21 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.6–8.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.0–6.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.4–4.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.8–3.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.2–1.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37.71 Mya3.6 Mya49 Mya1.7 Mya

21 occurrences of Profulvia 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

21 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

12 formations

Il'inskaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°EAleksandrovskaya — 49.11°N, 142.90°ESertunayskaya — 49.11°N, 142.90°EPakhachinskaya — 60.00°N, 165.00°EAluginskaya — 59.83°N, 165.00°EEtolonskaya — 58.42°N, 159.00°EKovachinskaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°ESnatol'skaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°EArakayskaya — 47.05°N, 142.06°EGennoyshinskaya — 51.17°N, 142.33°EMatitukskaya — 54.16°N, 142.56°EVerkhneduyskaya — 49.11°N, 142.90°E

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The named rock units Profulvia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Profulvia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Profulvia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

211 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Profulvia, 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

3 references

Each of the 21 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Unio tumidus Philipsson, 1788

Source
GBIF
Credit
-919270953
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itProfulviini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.