Radiolucina amianta

Lucina amiantus, or the decorated lucine, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Lucinidae.

Radiolucina amianta

Michele Jones · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
RadiolucinaPBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB, for Radiolucina
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Radiolucina
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Radiolucina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 762 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 774 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 12 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 12 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–1.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.0–924 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences924 ka–821 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences821 ka–719 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences719 ka–616 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences616 ka–513 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences513 ka–411 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411 ka–308 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences308 ka–205 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences205 ka–103 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences103 ka–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences774 ka11.7 ka3.08 Mya0 Mya

12 occurrences of Radiolucina amianta 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

12 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

4 formations

Pamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WAnastasia — 26.65°N, 80.45°WAnastasia — 26.33°N, 80.13°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°W

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The named rock units Radiolucina amianta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Radiolucina amianta and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Radiolucina amianta and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

202 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Radiolucina amianta, 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

4 references

Each of the 12 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 content2

Picture of Radiolucina amianta

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Michele Jones
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CC BY 4.0
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CT scan

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Specimen
Radiolucina amianta · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:306088

The description on this site

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

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What may have been alongside itRadiolucina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1901)