Venus

Venus is a genus of small to large saltwater clams in the family Veneridae, which is sometimes known as the Venus clams and their relatives. These are marine bivalve molluscs.

Venus

Uncredited · 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
VenerinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 371 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 371 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 371 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 371 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 371 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 63 of 371 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 371 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 371 occurrencesEocene — about 14 of 371 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 14 of 371 occurrencesMiocene — about 180 of 371 occurrencesPliocene — about 22 of 371 occurrencesPleistocene — about 57 of 371 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences226–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210–201 Mya — about 2 occurrences201–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–129 Mya — about 29 occurrences129–121 Mya — about 22 occurrences121–113 Mya — about 5 occurrences113–105 Mya — about 4 occurrences105–97 Mya — about 7 occurrences97–89 Mya — about 4 occurrences89–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–32 Mya — about 13 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 10 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 50 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 109 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 107 occurrences201.4 Mya11.7 ka242 Mya0 Mya

371 occurrences of Venus 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

371 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

85 formations

Cantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WCantaure — 11.95°N, 70.03°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.96°N, 82.37°WArcadia — 29.25°N, 82.17°WArcadia — 30.48°N, 84.02°WArcadia — 30.69°N, 84.84°WKoronia — 35.08°N, 33.17°EKoronia — 35.03°N, 33.15°EKoronia — 35.03°N, 33.12°EVaqueros — 34.52°N, 120.43°WVaqueros — 34.53°N, 120.31°WVaqueros — 34.59°N, 120.23°WVaqueros — 34.98°N, 120.21°WVaqueros — 36.07°N, 121.28°WBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.57°WBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WLychow — 50.69°N, 22.03°EWeglinek — 50.72°N, 21.95°EWeglin — 50.72°N, 21.95°EVuache — 46.83°N, 6.52°ECaloosahatchee — 25.75°N, 81.94°WCaloosahatchee — 26.77°N, 81.15°WCaloosahatchee — 26.34°N, 80.86°WKirkwood — 39.47°N, 75.35°WKirkwood — 39.15°N, 74.69°WKirkwood — 39.46°N, 75.30°WFels — 48.50°N, 15.76°EBudden Canyon — 40.42°N, 122.66°WBudden Canyon — 40.46°N, 122.56°WBudden Canyon — 40.60°N, 122.91°WUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°ECarbonera — 6.80°N, 73.58°WCarbonera — 8.33°N, 73.67°WUkari — 34.80°N, 137.90°EUkari — 34.77°N, 138.00°ENiechobrz — 49.92°N, 21.87°EPinczow — 50.53°N, 20.53°EEntre Rios — 33.72°S, 59.25°WKonka — 36.00°N, 51.18°EKonka — 36.45°N, 52.25°EGhibirti — 10.80°N, 51.05°EKattendijk — 51.25°N, 4.28°ECurchia — 44.76°N, 22.47°EShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°W

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The named rock units Venus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 61 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 219 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Venus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Venus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,371 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 242 sites for Venus, and this reads 240 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

137 references

Each of the 371 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. 125 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 Venus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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What may have been alongside itVenerinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758