Ameritella carpenteri

Ameritella carpenteri

R/V La Mer · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
Also called
Carpenter's tellinPBDB
Sits inside
AmeritellaPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Tellinidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Tellinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 7 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 7 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 7 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.58 Mya129 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

7 occurrences of Ameritella carpenteri on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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 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

5 formations

Lomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WPacific Muck — 8.93°N, 79.56°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°W

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The named rock units Ameritella carpenteri 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.

Ameritella carpenteri and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Ameritella carpenteri and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

549 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ameritella carpenteri, 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

7 references

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 content1

Picture of Ameritella carpenteri

Source
GBIF
Credit
R/V La Mer
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ameritella carpenteri 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 itAmeritella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1900)