Raeta undulata

Raeta undulata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
Pacific duckclamPBDB
Sits inside
RaetaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Raeta
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Raeta
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Raeta
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 2 of 43 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 22 of 43 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 43 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 11 of 43 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.5–5.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.6–4.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–1.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.9–928 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences23.04 Mya129 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

43 occurrences of Raeta undulata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

43 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

18 formations

Tubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.80°N, 74.92°WTubará — 10.75°N, 74.98°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WZorritos — 3.67°S, 80.65°WJama — 0.18°S, 80.32°WJama — 0.20°N, 80.27°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.91°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WProgreso — 2.28°S, 80.43°WProgreso — 2.12°S, 80.47°WYsidro — 26.15°N, 112.25°WCaimito — 9.15°N, 79.87°WBorbon — 1.09°N, 78.99°WCharco Azul — 8.55°N, 83.00°WArmuelles — 8.03°N, 82.92°WBohio — 9.17°N, 79.85°WEl Veral — 11.00°N, 69.83°WUrumaco — 11.00°N, 69.83°WTumbes — 3.83°S, 80.50°WPacific Muck — 8.93°N, 79.56°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°W

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The named rock units Raeta undulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Raeta undulata and its relatives

Miocene

Where Raeta undulata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,214 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Raeta undulata, 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

18 references

Each of the 43 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. 6 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 Raeta undulata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Raeta undulata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itRaeta through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gould 1851)