Protothaca (Callithaca) tenerrima alta

Protothaca tenerrima (P.P.Carpenter, 1857), a relative of Protothaca (Callithaca) tenerrima alta — not Protothaca (Callithaca) tenerrima alta itself

Not Protothaca (Callithaca) tenerrima alta. This is Protothaca tenerrima (P.P.Carpenter, 1857), a relative — both are Veneridae.

E.P. Chace · CC BY-NC 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
Callithaca tenerrimaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 2.9 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 774 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Pliocene — about 0 of 1 occurrencePliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 1 occurrencePleistocene3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.3–3.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.2–3.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.0–2.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.7–1.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.2–1.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.0–912 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences912 ka–784 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences784 ka–657 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.1 Mya274 ka

1 occurrence of Protothaca (Callithaca) tenerrima alta on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

1 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

1 formation

Saugus — 34.29°N, 119.26°W

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The named rock units Protothaca (Callithaca) tenerrima alta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Protothaca (Callithaca) tenerrima alta and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Protothaca (Callithaca) tenerrima alta and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Protothaca (Callithaca) tenerrima alta, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Protothaca tenerrima (P.P.Carpenter, 1857)

Source
GBIF
Credit
E.P. Chace
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Protothaca (Callithaca) tenerrima alta 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 itCallithaca tenerrima through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Waterfall 1929)