Tucetona democraciana

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TucetonaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tucetona
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Tucetona
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tucetona
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Glycymerididae

Time the record covers

At least 4.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Miocene — about 46 of 46 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 46 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.7–9.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.1–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–7.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.5–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.4–5.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.9–5.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15.98 Mya11.63 Mya20.9 Mya4.8 Mya

46 occurrences of Tucetona democraciana on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

46 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

4 formations

Castilletes — 11.92°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.96°N, 71.26°WCastilletes — 11.92°N, 71.36°WJimol — 11.98°N, 71.31°WJimol — 11.95°N, 71.36°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°W

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The named rock units Tucetona democraciana 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.

Tucetona democraciana and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tucetona democraciana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

137 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Tucetona democraciana, 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

4 references

Each of the 46 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 content0

No picture of Tucetona democraciana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Tucetona democraciana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tucetona democraciana 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 itTucetona through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hodson et al. 1927)