Saccella balboae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SaccellaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Saccella
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Saccella
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Saccella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculanidae
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
32 occurrences of Saccella balboae 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
32 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Saccella balboae 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.
Saccella balboae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Saccella balboae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
338 taxa- Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis14 sites
- Lirophora (Panchione) mactropsis13 sites
- Caryocorbula oropendula stena12 sites
- Polystira11 sites
- Oliva gatunensis10 sites
- Bellucina actinus9 sites
- Cadulus (Platyschides)9 sites
- Psammacoma gatunensis9 sites
- Stigmaulax guppiana9 sites
- Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira9 sites
- Varicorbula disparilis9 sites
- Antillophos candeanus8 sites
- Architectonica nobilis8 sites
- Conus molis8 sites
- Eurytellina punicea8 sites
- Lepidopecten scissuratus8 sites
- Macrocallista maculata8 sites
- Strioterebrum spiriferum8 sites
- Strombina (Strombina) lessepsiana8 sites
- Bivetiella dariena7 sites
- Conus imitator7 sites
- Gadilopsis7 sites
- Hindsiclava consors7 sites
- Natica bolus7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Saccella balboae, 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
2 references- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (additions to gastropods, scaphopods, pelecypods: Nuculidae to Malleidae)27
- The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica5
Each of the 32 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. 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 content0
No picture of Saccella balboae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Saccella balboae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Saccella balboae 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 itSaccella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brown and Pilsbry 1911)