Byssoarca zebra

Searched as Arca zebra. The Paleobiology Database treats Byssoarca zebra as the accepted name.

Arca zebra, or the turkey wing ark clam, is a bivalve mollusc in the family Arcidae, the ark clams.

Byssoarca zebra

Wilfredor · CC0 · via Wikipedia/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
Arca (Byssoarca)PBDB
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 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 44 occurrencesMiocene — about 14 of 44 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 44 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 14 of 44 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

44 occurrences of Byssoarca zebra 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

44 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

22 formations

Gurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WBelmont — 32.33°N, 64.69°WWare — 11.85°N, 71.32°WWare — 11.82°N, 71.41°WCaloosahatchee — 25.75°N, 81.94°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WDevonshire — 32.28°N, 64.77°WDevonshire — 32.30°N, 64.86°WMao — 19.57°N, 71.17°WMao — 19.67°N, 71.40°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WLas Cahobas — 18.51°N, 72.27°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WSpencer's Point — 32.31°N, 64.73°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WMunguidó — 4.32°N, 76.93°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WBoca Chica — 10.62°N, 64.00°WCumana — 10.47°N, 64.15°WCaujarao — 11.45°N, 69.57°W

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The named rock units Byssoarca zebra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Byssoarca zebra and its relatives

Miocene

Where Byssoarca zebra and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,605 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Byssoarca zebra, 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

25 references

Each of the 44 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. 13 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

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Picture of Byssoarca zebra

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No 3D scan of Byssoarca zebra 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Swainson 1833