Barbatia candida

Barbatia candida, or the White-bearded ark clam, is a clam in the family Arcidae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, ranging from North Carolina to Texas, including the West Indies.

Barbatia candida

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BarbatiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Barbatia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Barbatia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Barbatia
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 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 5 of 24 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 24 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 12 of 24 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 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 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

24 occurrences of Barbatia candida 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

24 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

12 formations

Termofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°ETalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.51°N, 71.19°WAbisinia — 10.00°N, 63.00°WRiviere Gauche — 18.37°N, 72.65°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WBelmont — 32.33°N, 64.69°WSpencer's Point — 32.31°N, 64.73°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°WIronshore — 19.33°N, 81.25°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°WBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°E

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The named rock units Barbatia candida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Barbatia candida and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Barbatia candida and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

799 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Barbatia candida, 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

16 references

Each of the 24 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. 4 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Barbatia candida

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FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Barbatia candida 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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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itBarbatia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Helbling 1779)