Semele

Semele is a genus of molluscs of the family Semelidae described in 1817 by Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher.

Semele

Lindsey K. Wise · 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
SemelidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 481 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 481 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 31 of 481 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 24 of 481 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 168 of 481 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 79 of 481 occurrencesPleistocene — about 166 of 481 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 11 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 7 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 6 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 6 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 7 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 16 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 20 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 19 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 12 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 38 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 27 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 24 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 23 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 71 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 168 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

481 occurrences of Semele 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

481 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

110 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.88°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°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°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChoptank — 38.41°N, 76.48°WChoptank — 38.52°N, 76.51°WChoptank — 38.38°N, 76.38°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.79°N, 81.30°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WCulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.64°WCulebra — 9.15°N, 79.62°WCulebra — 9.13°N, 79.62°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.23°N, 77.94°WWaccamaw — 34.29°N, 78.51°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.05°S, 70.79°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.05°S, 70.79°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.22°S, 70.88°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.12°S, 70.91°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.70°S, 70.97°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WOak Grove — 30.97°N, 86.46°WDuplin — 34.50°N, 79.11°WDuplin — 35.00°N, 78.32°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 35.51°N, 77.62°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.82°N, 82.47°WArcadia — 30.21°N, 84.30°WArcadia — 30.69°N, 84.84°WHorry Clay — 34.97°N, 76.97°WHorry Clay — 33.69°N, 78.89°WSantee Limestone — 33.51°N, 80.49°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.38°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.25°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 32.27°N, 89.99°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WMint Spring — 32.36°N, 90.87°WEugene — 44.06°N, 123.09°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WTubará — 10.33°N, 75.41°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°W

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The named rock units Semele has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 86 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 75 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Semele and its relatives

Miocene

Where Semele and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,794 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 277 sites for Semele, and this reads 240 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

144 references

Each of the 481 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. 132 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 content3

Picture of Semele

Credit
Lindsey K. Wise
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

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In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Semele proficua · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:177473

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC Attribution
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Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itSemelidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schumacher 1817