Antigona (Periglypta)

Not Antigona (Periglypta). This is Periglypta reticulata (Linnaeus, 1758), a relative — both are Veneridae.
David Martin · CC BY-NC 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- Sits inside
- AntigonaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 118 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Antigona (Periglypta) on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Antigona (Periglypta) and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Antigona (Periglypta) and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
146 taxa- Acar plicata1 site
- Acrosterigma (Vasticardium) arenicola1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata1 site
- Anadara (Anadara) dichotoma1 site
- Anomia nobilis1 site
- Arca clathrata1 site
- Architectonica perspectiva1 site
- Arcopagia1 site
- Arcopaginula inflata1 site
- Atys1 site
- Azorinus coarctatus1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) lacerata1 site
- Barbatia (Ustularca) fusca1 site
- Bistolida erythraeensis1 site
- Bulla ampulla1 site
- Callista1 site
- Cancilla1 site
- Cardita variegata1 site
- Cardium flavum1 site
- Caryocorbula cuneata1 site
- Cerastoderma1 site
- Cerithium madreporicola1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Antigona (Periglypta), 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Periglypta reticulata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- David Martin
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Antigona (Periglypta) was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAntigona through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.