Asaphis deflorata
Asaphis deflorata, common name the gaudy sanguin, is a species of bivalve in the family Psammobiidae.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AsaphisPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Asaphis
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Asaphis
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Asaphis
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 117 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 129 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
8 occurrences of Asaphis deflorata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
8 occurrences- Pleistocene75%
- Holocene25%
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.
Asaphis deflorata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Asaphis deflorata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
276 taxa- Plicatula plicata5 sites
- Strombus5 sites
- Arca imbricata arabica4 sites
- Circe pectinata4 sites
- Codakia tigerina4 sites
- Spondylus4 sites
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata3 sites
- Arca3 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) lacerata3 sites
- Cerithium caeruleum3 sites
- Chama3 sites
- Gafrarium pectinatum3 sites
- Natica3 sites
- Periglypta reticulata3 sites
- Pyrula paradisiaca nodosa3 sites
- Strombus fasciatus3 sites
- Tibia3 sites
- Trochus dentatus3 sites
- Acar plicata2 sites
- Arca navicularis2 sites
- Cardita variegata2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Cardium rugosum gortanii2 sites
- Cerithium2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Asaphis deflorata, 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
4 references- Molluschi delle spiagge emerse del Mar Rosso e dell'Oceano Indiano, parte II (Lamellibranchi) [Mollusks from raised beaches bordering the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, part II (bivalves)]4
- The Fossil Coral Reefs of Al-Aqaba, Jordan2
- Late Prehistoric Lucayan occupation and subsistence on Middle Caicos Island, northern West Indies1
- Mollusques Pleistocenes de la Cote Francaise des Somalis [Pleistocene molluscs from French Somaliland]1
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 content1
Picture of Asaphis deflorata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Veronidae
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Asaphis deflorata 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
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAsaphis through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)