Sportella

Sportella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SportellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 61 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 61 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 9 of 61 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 10 of 61 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 23 of 61 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 61 occurrencesPleistocene — about 14 of 61 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 6 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

61 occurrences of Sportella 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

61 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

Oak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 31.98°N, 89.42°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WMint Spring — 32.36°N, 90.87°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WGosport Sand — 31.51°N, 87.89°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 88.06°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WDuplin — 34.50°N, 79.11°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.91°S, 138.56°ECalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WUmm al-Rua’us — 26.43°N, 50.11°EKirkwood — 39.46°N, 75.30°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 87.75°WWeches — 31.78°N, 95.15°W

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The named rock units Sportella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sportella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sportella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,782 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Sportella, 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

17 references

Each of the 61 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. 5 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 Sportella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sportella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deshayes 1858