Arca newtoni
No picture of Arca newtoni 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 newtoni, 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 least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
4 occurrences of Arca newtoni on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
4 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
- Upper Bhuban Formation · Surma Group3
- Mekran Formation1
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The named rock units Arca newtoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Arca newtoni and its relatives
MioceneWhere Arca newtoni and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
5 taxa- Anadara (Lunarca) kachharai1 site
- Anadara craticulata1 site
- Anadara daviesi1 site
- Anadara garoensis1 site
- Anadara gourae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Arca newtoni, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Neogene palaeontology of the Surma Group, Mizoram, India. 1 - The Arcoida (Mollusca: Bivalvia)2
- Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Tertiary sediments of Mizoram, India1
- Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Gastropoda (in part) and Lamellibranchiata1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Arca newtoni 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 newtoni, 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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vredenburg 1928