Arcinella californica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArcinellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Arcinella
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Arcinella
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Arcinella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 774 ka.
8 occurrences of Arcinella californica on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
8 occurrences- Pliocene88%
- Pleistocene13%
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
3 formations
- Imperial Formation4
- Charco Azul Formation1
- Armuelles Formation · Charco Azul Group1
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The named rock units Arcinella californica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Arcinella californica and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Arcinella californica and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
196 taxa- Codakia distinguenda5 sites
- Euvola keepi5 sites
- Anodontia edentuloides4 sites
- Dendostrea vespertina4 sites
- Divalinga eburnea4 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymeris) gigantea4 sites
- Kalolophus antillarum4 sites
- Anadara reinharti3 sites
- Arca3 sites
- Arca pacifica3 sites
- Argopecten3 sites
- Conus3 sites
- Dosinia semiobliterata3 sites
- Lucinisca nuttalli3 sites
- Miltha xantusi3 sites
- Pinna latrania3 sites
- Polinices uber3 sites
- Pycnodonte heermanni3 sites
- Spondylus3 sites
- Strophocardia megastropha3 sites
- Turritella3 sites
- Agaronia2 sites
- Anadara nux2 sites
- Architectonica nobilis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Arcinella californica, 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
3 references- Pliocene Invertebrates From the Travertine Point Outcrop of the Imperial Formation, Imperial County, California4
- Tertiary and Quaternary fossils from Burica Peninsula of Panama and Costa Rica2
- Paleontology of Coyote Mountain, Imperial County, California2
Each of the 8 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 Arcinella californica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Arcinella californica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Arcinella californica was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itArcinella through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1903)