Acila (Truncacila) decisa

Acila (Truncacila) decisa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Acila (Truncacila)PBDB
Diet
deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB, for Nuculidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Nuculidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculidae

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 60 occurrencesPaleocene — about 15 of 60 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 44 of 60 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 60 occurrencesOligocene67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 4 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 4 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 4 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 4 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59.24 Mya33.9 Mya66.8 Mya26.5 Mya

60 occurrences of Acila (Truncacila) decisa on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

60 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

27 formations

Martinez — 38.05°N, 122.15°WMartinez — 38.02°N, 122.10°WMartinez — 38.21°N, 121.99°WSanta Susana — 34.29°N, 118.69°WSanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.73°WRoseburg — 43.02°N, 123.93°WRoseburg — 43.27°N, 123.45°WRoseburg — 43.23°N, 123.41°WJuncal — 34.77°N, 119.16°WLodo — 36.60°N, 120.69°WLodo — 36.36°N, 120.44°WCapay — 38.77°N, 122.20°WCapay — 39.20°N, 121.82°WCrescent — 47.31°N, 123.53°WCrescent — 47.31°N, 123.55°WRaging River — 47.42°N, 121.97°WFlournoy — 43.28°N, 123.08°WFlournoy — 43.46°N, 123.57°WTyee — 43.55°N, 124.16°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WGetkilninskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°EKilakirnunskaya — 59.92°N, 165.00°EKylanskaya — 59.92°N, 165.00°EBushnell Rock — 43.31°N, 123.12°WTenmile — 43.31°N, 123.12°WWhite Tail Ridge — 43.22°N, 123.19°WMeganos — 37.85°N, 121.64°WManiobra — 33.59°N, 115.67°WLlajas — 34.33°N, 118.65°WCoaledo — 43.34°N, 124.37°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WScripps — 32.83°N, 117.12°WLincoln Creek — 46.41°N, 122.93°W

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The named rock units Acila (Truncacila) decisa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acila (Truncacila) decisa and its relatives

Eocene

Where Acila (Truncacila) decisa and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

550 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Acila (Truncacila) decisa, 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

24 references

Each of the 60 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. 12 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 content1

Picture of Acila (Truncacila) decisa

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAcila (Truncacila) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1855)