Axinopsida serricata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- lenticular axinopsidPBDB
- Sits inside
- AxinopsidaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, chemosymbioticPBDB, for Thyasiridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Thyasiridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Thyasiridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.
13 occurrences of Axinopsida serricata 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
13 occurrences- Pliocene26%
- Pleistocene74%
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
6 formations
- Lomita Marl Formation3
- Timms Point Silt Formation2
- San Pedro Sand Formation2
- Foxen Mudstone Formation1
- Fernando Formation1
- San Diego Formation1
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The named rock units Axinopsida serricata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Axinopsida serricata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Axinopsida serricata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
498 taxa- Thyasira flexuosa6 sites
- Caesia perpinguis5 sites
- Californiconus californicus5 sites
- Calliostoma canaliculatum5 sites
- Chlamys hastata5 sites
- Dallocardia quadragenarium5 sites
- Lucinoma annulata5 sites
- Mitrella tuberosa5 sites
- Panopea generosa5 sites
- Saccella taphria5 sites
- Solen sicarius5 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) castrensis4 sites
- Alia carinata4 sites
- Barbarofusus barbarensis4 sites
- Boreotrophon pedroana4 sites
- Callianax biplicata4 sites
- Calliostoma ligatum4 sites
- Clinocardium (Clinocardium) nuttallii4 sites
- Crepidula nummaria4 sites
- Cryptonatica affinis4 sites
- Dentalium neohexagonum4 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana4 sites
- Hima mendica4 sites
- Leukoma staminea4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Axinopsida serricata, 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
9 references- Geology and Paleontology of Palos Verdes Hills, California4
- The cool-water Timms Point Pleistocene horizon at San Pedro, California2
- Discovery of an Extensive Deep-Sea Fossil Serpulid Reef Associated with a Cold Seep, Santa Monica Basin, California1
- The Geology and Paleontology of the Marine Pliocene of San Diego, California (Paleontology: Pelecypoda)1
- Geology and paleontology of the Santa Maria District California1
- Additional Notes on the Pliocene Molluscan Fauna of Los Angeles City1
- Geology of the eastern part of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California1
- Pliocene beds at Timms Point, San Pedro, California1
- Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska1
Each of the 13 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 Axinopsida serricata
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- EcologyWA
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Axinopsida serricata 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 itAxinopsida through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Carpenter 1864)