Timoclea ovata

Timoclea ovata

Jan Lorié · Public Domain · 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
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 least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesMiocene — about 14 of 39 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 39 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 12 of 39 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.6–8.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.8–8.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.0–7.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.3–6.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.2–3.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.4–2.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.6–1.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.8–1.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.1–274 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences20.45 Mya2.58 Mya23.5 Mya274 ka

39 occurrences of Timoclea ovata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

39 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

12 formations

Lillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°ECoralline Crag — 52.05°N, 1.36°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.35°EKoronia — 35.08°N, 33.17°EKoronia — 35.03°N, 33.12°ERhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EBerada — 51.10°N, 5.80°EKattendijk — 51.25°N, 4.28°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°EOosterhout — 51.70°N, 5.73°EFalun de Sainte-Avit — 43.91°N, 0.66°WCapo San Marco — 39.90°N, 8.43°EMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°E

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The named rock units Timoclea ovata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Timoclea ovata and its relatives

Miocene

Where Timoclea ovata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,252 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Timoclea ovata, 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

20 references

Each of the 39 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. 8 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 Timoclea ovata

Credit
Jan Lorié
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Timoclea ovata was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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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What may have been alongside itTimoclea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pennant 1777)