Abra (Abra) lioica
Searched as Abra lioica. The Paleobiology Database treats Abra (Abra) lioica as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Abra (Abra)PBDB
- Diet
- deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB, for Abra
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Abra
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Abra
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 7.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.
7 occurrences of Abra (Abra) lioica on record. 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Abra (Abra) lioica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Brachiodontes3 sites
- Buccinanops3 sites
- Corbula3 sites
- Crepidula3 sites
- Nucula (Lamellinucula) semiornata3 sites
- Pitar rostratus3 sites
- Anomalocardia brasiliana2 sites
- Atilia2 sites
- Bellucina actinus2 sites
- Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis2 sites
- Caryocorbula oropendula stena2 sites
- Cylichnella atacata stibara2 sites
- Ennucula puelcha2 sites
- Erodona mactroides2 sites
- Gadilopsis2 sites
- Gemmula vaningeni2 sites
- Heleobia australis2 sites
- Lepidopecten scissuratus2 sites
- Lirophora (Panchione) mactropsis2 sites
- Lucinisca bocasensis2 sites
- Nucula2 sites
- Psammacoma gatunensis2 sites
- Sphenia2 sites
- Strioterebrum wolfgangi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Abra (Abra) lioica, 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
3 references- Paleontologia de los sedimentos marinos holocenos de los alrededores de Bahia Blanca, Provincia de Buenos Aires3
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel2
- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae).2
Each of the 7 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 content2

Picture of Abra (Abra) lioica
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Abra lioica · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:208415
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAbra (Abra) through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1886)