Arca noae

Arca noae

M.Violante · CC BY 2.5 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 27 of 42 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 42 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 42 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.0–6.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–1.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

42 occurrences of Arca noae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

42 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

13 formations

Koronia — 35.08°N, 33.17°EKoronia — 35.05°N, 33.10°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ENicosia — 35.10°N, 33.15°EWeglin — 50.72°N, 21.95°EWeglinek — 50.72°N, 21.95°ELychow — 50.69°N, 22.03°EGavdos — 34.83°N, 24.08°EApostoli — 35.25°N, 24.58°EKourtes — 35.20°N, 25.10°ECapo San Marco — 39.90°N, 8.43°EPanchina — 43.57°N, 10.35°EMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°EAlexandria — 33.75°S, 25.67°E

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The named rock units Arca noae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Arca noae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Arca noae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,127 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Arca noae, 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

21 references

Each of the 42 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. 9 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Arca noae

Credit
M.Violante
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Arca noae · usnm:invertebrate zoology:431125

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.

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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. (Linnaeus 1758)