Arca limula
No picture of Arca limula was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Arca limula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArcaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Arca
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Arca
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Arca
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae
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 Arca limula 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
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.
Arca limula and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Arca limula and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
171 taxa- Acar domingensis1 site
- Acer rubrum1 site
- Aenocyon dirus1 site
- Aetobatus1 site
- Alligator mississippiensis1 site
- Amia1 site
- Amphiuma means1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Anadara (Larkinia) transversa1 site
- Anadara (Lunarca)1 site
- Anomalocardia cuneimeris1 site
- Anomia simplex1 site
- Anona glabra1 site
- Ardea1 site
- Ardea alba egretta1 site
- Ardea herodias1 site
- Ardeidae1 site
- Argopecten gibbus1 site
- Aves1 site
- Benzoin1 site
- Bison1 site
- Brasenia purpurea1 site
- Busycon carica1 site
- Busycon perversum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Arca limula, 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 content0
No picture of Arca limula was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Arca limula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itArca through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1832