Tapes virginea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TapesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
4 occurrences of Tapes virginea on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene75%
- Pleistocene25%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Tapes virginea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tapes virginea and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Tapes virginea and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
326 taxa- Aequipecten opercularis4 sites
- Abra alba3 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) cobboldae3 sites
- Arca lactea3 sites
- Arcopagia (Arcopagia) crassa3 sites
- Astarte digitaria3 sites
- Barnea (Barnea) cylindrica3 sites
- Cardita scalaris3 sites
- Cardita senilis3 sites
- Caryocorbula striata3 sites
- Clausinella fasciata3 sites
- Clavatula costata3 sites
- Clavatula mitrula3 sites
- Corbula3 sites
- Gastrana laminosa3 sites
- Gouldia (Gouldia) minima3 sites
- Hiatella3 sites
- Isocrassina basteroti3 sites
- Kellia ambigua3 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) praetenuis3 sites
- Mactra ovalis3 sites
- Mactra stultorum3 sites
- Murex torturosus3 sites
- Mya (Arenomya) arenaria3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tapes virginea, 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 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tapes virginea was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tapes virginea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tapes virginea was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTapes through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1767)