Arca sandbergeri
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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 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Arca sandbergeri on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
6 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
4 formations
- Falun de Jeurs Formation2
- Sable de Vauroux-Saint-Antoine Formation2
- Conglomerat de Pierrefitte Formation1
- Alzey Formation1
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The named rock units Arca sandbergeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Arca sandbergeri and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Arca sandbergeri and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
257 taxa- Calyptraea6 sites
- Cordiopsis incrassata6 sites
- Ctena6 sites
- Glycymeris6 sites
- Granulolabium plicatum6 sites
- Polinices6 sites
- Abra5 sites
- Aporrhais speciosa5 sites
- Arcopagia5 sites
- Bayania semidecussata5 sites
- Benoistia5 sites
- Bittium5 sites
- Callucina (Callucina) thierensi5 sites
- Cylichna5 sites
- Cytherea (Callista) splendida5 sites
- Habecardium tenuisulcatum5 sites
- Hemicerithium5 sites
- Lentidium (Ajanssenium) nitidum5 sites
- Lucina5 sites
- Lunatia5 sites
- Odostomia5 sites
- Paralucinella undulata5 sites
- Parvicardium5 sites
- Parvilucina5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Arca sandbergeri, 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
2 references- Biostratigraphie et paleoecologie des gisements types du Stampian de la region d''Etampes (Essonne)5
- Die Alzey-Formation der klassichen Lokalitat Wlschberg bei Waldbockelheim (Rupelium, Oligozan, Mainzer Becken) - Ergebnisse neuer Grabungen1
Each of the 6 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Arca sandbergeri
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Arca sandbergeri 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 itArca through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deshayes 1860