Asaphis violascens

Uncredited · 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
- 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 most 118 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Asaphis violascens on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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 violascens and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Asaphis violascens and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Acropora1 site
- Acropora pharaonis1 site
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brissopsis1 site
- Caelatura1 site
- Canarium1 site
- Canarium mutabile1 site
- Cerithium (Cerithium) nodulosum1 site
- Cerithium caeruleum1 site
- Chama pacifica1 site
- Chicoreus1 site
- Circe (Circe) scripta1 site
- Circe corrugata1 site
- Clanculus (Clanculus) pharaonius1 site
- Codakia tigerina1 site
- Conus1 site
- Conus arenatus1 site
- Conus textile1 site
- Conus virgo1 site
- Diodora ruppelli1 site
- Dipsastraea laxa1 site
- Dipsastraea pallida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Asaphis violascens, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Asaphis violascens
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Asaphis violascens 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.
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. Forsskål 1775