Tagelus plebeius

Tagelus plebeius

Eric A. Lazo-Wasem · 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
Sits inside
TagelusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tagelus
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Tagelus
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tagelus
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 53 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 53 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 53 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 38 of 53 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 34 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

53 occurrences of Tagelus plebeius 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

53 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

13 formations

Pamlico — 38.55°N, 75.08°WPamlico — 35.70°N, 75.74°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.64°N, 80.01°WPamlico — 32.83°N, 79.94°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 33.86°N, 78.55°WSaxicava Clay — 49.58°N, 57.93°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WTalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WChuy — 33.95°S, 58.33°WChuy — 33.88°S, 53.52°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WLas Escobas — 35.97°S, 57.49°WZorritos — 3.67°S, 80.65°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WHorry Clay — 33.69°N, 78.89°WBear Bluff — 26.76°N, 81.44°W

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The named rock units Tagelus plebeius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tagelus plebeius and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Tagelus plebeius and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

682 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Tagelus plebeius, 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

16 references

Each of the 53 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. 4 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 Tagelus plebeius

Credit
Eric A. Lazo-Wasem
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Tagelus plebeius · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:177579

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. (Lightfoot 1786)