Tivela (Tivela) mactroides
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Tivela (Tivela)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tivela
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Tivela
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tivela
- 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.
14 occurrences of Tivela (Tivela) mactroides 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
14 occurrences- Miocene86%
- Pliocene7%
- Pleistocene7%
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
6 formations
- Gatun Formation6
- Culebra Formation4
- Alhajuela Formation1
- Abisinia Formation1
- Tubará Formation1
- Araya Formation1
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The named rock units Tivela (Tivela) mactroides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tivela (Tivela) mactroides and its relatives
MioceneWhere Tivela (Tivela) mactroides and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
232 taxa- Anadara4 sites
- Acteocina2 sites
- Adrana2 sites
- Anachis (Costoanachis) mira fugax2 sites
- Architectonica nobilis2 sites
- Arcinella arcinella2 sites
- Bellucina actinus2 sites
- Bivetiella dariena2 sites
- Cadulus (Platyschides)2 sites
- Cancellaria (Cancellaria)2 sites
- Cancellaria (Pyruclia) cibarcola2 sites
- Caryocorbula prenasuta2 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum2 sites
- Conus imitator2 sites
- Ervilia valhosierr2 sites
- Euclia codazzii2 sites
- Hyotissa haitensis2 sites
- Ithycythara defuniak2 sites
- Lamelliconcha cora2 sites
- Nassarius (Uzita) praeambiguus2 sites
- Oliva gatunensis2 sites
- Petaloconchus sculpturatus2 sites
- Polinices stanislasmeunieri2 sites
- Psammacoma gatunensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tivela (Tivela) mactroides, 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
5 references- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae).9
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions2
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- Late Cenozoic pelecypods from northern Venezuela1
- Marine Miocene and related deposits of North Colombia1
Each of the 14 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
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No picture of Tivela (Tivela) mactroides 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 Tivela (Tivela) mactroides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tivela (Tivela) mactroides 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.
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What may have been alongside itTivela (Tivela) through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Born 1778)