Timoclea imbricata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TimocleaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Timoclea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Timoclea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Timoclea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Timoclea imbricata on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
5 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Timoclea imbricata 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.
Timoclea imbricata and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Timoclea imbricata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
245 taxa- Aequipecten opercularis4 sites
- Cardita senilis4 sites
- Caryocorbula striata4 sites
- Gastrana laminosa4 sites
- Isocrassina basteroti4 sites
- Liomesus dalei4 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) nucleus4 sites
- Palliolum tigrinum4 sites
- Amyclina labiosa3 sites
- Aporrhais pespelecani3 sites
- Arctica islandica3 sites
- Artemis lentiformis3 sites
- Astarte (Digitariopsis) obliquata burtinea3 sites
- Astarte gracilis3 sites
- Astarte mutabilis3 sites
- Buccinofusus costiferum3 sites
- Buccinum undatum3 sites
- Cardita scalaris3 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) rotundata3 sites
- Galeodea3 sites
- Glycymeris3 sites
- Isocardia cor3 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) obliqua3 sites
- Mya (Mya) truncata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Timoclea imbricata, 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
2 referencesEach of the 5 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. 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 Timoclea imbricata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Timoclea imbricata 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 itTimoclea through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1826)