Scapharca (Scapharca) delicatula
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Scapharca (Scapharca)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Anadara
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Anadara
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Anadara
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Scapharca (Scapharca) delicatula on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
9 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Scapharca (Scapharca) delicatula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scapharca (Scapharca) delicatula and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Scapharca (Scapharca) delicatula and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
170 taxa- Nucula vicksburgensis9 sites
- Pitar9 sites
- Tellina9 sites
- Callista8 sites
- Ervilia8 sites
- Myrtina vicksburgensis8 sites
- Astarte menthifontis7 sites
- Corbula engonata7 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) eburnea7 sites
- Donax funerata7 sites
- Lirophora (Lirophora) victoria7 sites
- Spisula7 sites
- Varicorbula laqueata7 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) carsonensis7 sites
- Crenella fenestra6 sites
- Eburneopecten (Eburneopecten) subminutus6 sites
- Glycymeris arctata6 sites
- Glycymeris suwannensis6 sites
- Lucina (Parvilucina) posteocurta6 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) diversum6 sites
- Pleurolucina imbricolamella6 sites
- Semelina6 sites
- Tiza6 sites
- Verticordia6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Scapharca (Scapharca) delicatula, 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
1 referenceEach of the 9 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 content1
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Scapharca inaequivalvis · usnm:invertebrate zoology:90270
No picture of Scapharca (Scapharca) delicatula was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Scapharca (Scapharca) delicatula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itScapharca (Scapharca) through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Casey 1903)