Arca (Barbatia) saffordi
No picture of Arca (Barbatia) saffordi was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Arca (Barbatia) saffordi firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Arca (Barbatia) saffordi on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
- Ripley Formation · Selma Group2
- Woodbury Formation · Matawan Group1
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The named rock units Arca (Barbatia) saffordi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Arca (Barbatia) saffordi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Arca (Barbatia) saffordi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
400 taxa- Anomia3 sites
- Anomia argentaria3 sites
- Corbula3 sites
- Corbula crassiplica3 sites
- Crassatella vadosa3 sites
- Dentalium3 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata3 sites
- Legumen3 sites
- Linearis3 sites
- Nucula percrassa3 sites
- Ostrea3 sites
- Tellina3 sites
- Turritella3 sites
- Turritella vertebroides3 sites
- Acirsa2 sites
- Acirsa (Hemiacirsa) cretacea2 sites
- Acteon2 sites
- Acutostrea plumosa2 sites
- Agerostrea falcata2 sites
- Amaurellina stephensoni2 sites
- Anchura2 sites
- Anchura convexa2 sites
- Anomalofusus substriatus2 sites
- Aphrodina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Arca (Barbatia) saffordi, 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- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
- The fauna of the Ripley formation on Coon creek, Tennessee1
- Cretaceous reptiles of the United States1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Arca (Barbatia) saffordi was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Arca (Barbatia) saffordi firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Arca (Barbatia) saffordi 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 itFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1860