Tivela

Tivela is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Meretricinae of the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.

Tivela

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · 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
MeretricinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 175 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 23 of 175 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 175 occurrencesMiocene — about 43 of 175 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 31 of 175 occurrencesPleistocene — about 77 of 175 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 9 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 9 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 8 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 11 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 33 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 66 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka63 Mya0 Mya

175 occurrences of Tivela 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

175 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

51 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WVaqueros — 33.54°N, 117.78°WVaqueros — 33.55°N, 117.82°WVaqueros — 33.77°N, 117.89°WVaqueros — 33.78°N, 117.70°WVaqueros — 33.70°N, 117.71°WVaqueros — 33.64°N, 117.59°WVaqueros — 36.20°N, 121.32°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 119.03°WVaqueros — 34.52°N, 120.43°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.16°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.14°WVaqueros — 34.93°N, 119.06°WVaqueros — 34.98°N, 120.21°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.77°N, 120.48°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.22°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.25°WTemblor — 36.00°N, 120.51°WTemblor — 35.88°N, 120.10°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.94°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WSespe — 33.77°N, 117.68°WSespe — 33.76°N, 117.78°WCulebra — 9.05°N, 79.65°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WSnatol'skaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°EMeganos — 37.89°N, 121.71°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WFlournoy — 43.28°N, 123.08°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPico — 34.42°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.38°N, 118.61°WTumey — 36.55°N, 120.49°WOrmara & Jiwani — 25.25°N, 62.25°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WBredasdorp — 34.53°S, 20.03°EBredasdorp — 33.88°S, 18.45°ECoaledo — 43.31°N, 124.40°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°WJewett — 35.49°N, 118.85°WTkapravayamskaya — 60.87°N, 163.67°E

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The named rock units Tivela has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tivela and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Tivela and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,589 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 133 sites for Tivela, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

73 references

Each of the 175 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. 61 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 Tivela

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

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Tivela trigonella · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:185690

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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What may have been alongside itMeretricinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Link 1807