Strigilla

Strigilla is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Tellinidae.

Strigilla

Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 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
TellininaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 6 of 79 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 79 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 27 of 79 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 24 of 79 occurrencesPleistocene — about 18 of 79 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 10 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 13 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

79 occurrences of Strigilla 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

79 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

37 formations

Bohio — 9.18°N, 79.88°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WTalparo — 10.63°N, 61.28°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.18°WOak Grove — 30.90°N, 84.58°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.06°N, 84.49°WCulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.76°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WRio Banano — 9.66°N, 82.75°WRio Banano — 9.62°N, 82.83°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WJama — 0.18°S, 80.32°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WAscot — 32.08°S, 115.92°EPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WCastilletes — 11.92°N, 71.34°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WAbisinia — 10.00°N, 63.00°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCharco Azul — 8.55°N, 83.00°WBelmont — 32.33°N, 64.69°WDevonshire — 32.30°N, 64.75°WMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°E

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The named rock units Strigilla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Strigilla and its relatives

Miocene

Where Strigilla and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,197 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Strigilla, 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

33 references

Each of the 79 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 content2

Picture of Strigilla

Credit
Hans Hillewaert
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Strigilla (Pisiformis) pisiformis · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:191018

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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. (Turton 1822)