Tucetona pectinata

Tucetona pectinata, or the comb bittersweet, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Glycymerididae.

Tucetona pectinata

Gmelin, 1791 · CC0 · 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
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 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 89 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 89 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 46 of 89 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 89 occurrencesPleistocene — about 23 of 89 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 7 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 7 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 20 occurrences23.04 Mya129 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

89 occurrences of Tucetona pectinata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

89 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

32 formations

Gatun — 9.30°N, 79.92°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WUrumaco — 11.22°N, 70.25°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.80°N, 81.37°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 32.64°N, 80.01°WGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WAlhajuela — 9.22°N, 79.62°WSeroe Domi — 12.48°N, 69.96°WCaloosahatchee — 25.91°N, 81.36°WCaimito — 9.18°N, 79.63°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WLa Rosa — 10.46°N, 71.03°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WWaccamaw — 34.21°N, 81.31°WYorktown — 37.10°N, 76.39°WBelmont — 32.33°N, 64.69°WDevonshire — 32.31°N, 64.87°WAnastasia — 26.65°N, 80.45°WGavdos — 34.83°N, 24.08°E

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The named rock units Tucetona pectinata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tucetona pectinata and its relatives

Miocene

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

Found in the same rock

1,628 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Tucetona pectinata, 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

30 references

Each of the 89 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. 18 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 Tucetona pectinata

Credit
Gmelin, 1791
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Tucetona pectinata · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:150854

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1791)