Saccella taphria

Saccella taphria

Dall, 1897 · CC0 · via Wikidata/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
Also called
furrowed nutclamPBDB
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 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 3 of 116 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 37 of 116 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 76 of 116 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 116 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 10 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 12 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 14 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 13 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 35 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

116 occurrences of Saccella taphria 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

116 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

17 formations

Careaga Sandstone — 34.83°N, 120.38°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.86°N, 120.46°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.47°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WTowsley — 34.34°N, 118.54°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WSan Pedro — 33.93°N, 117.95°WSan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.16°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WSan Diego — 32.49°N, 117.12°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°WPancho Rico — 36.00°N, 120.45°WFoxen Mudstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WQuaternary terrace — 33.80°N, 118.39°WNiguel — 33.64°N, 117.89°WSanta Barbara — 34.40°N, 119.69°W

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The named rock units Saccella taphria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Saccella taphria and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Saccella taphria and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,239 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 100 sites for Saccella taphria, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

33 references

Each of the 116 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. 21 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 Saccella taphria

Credit
Dall, 1897
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Saccella taphria 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 PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1896)