Cavilinga lampra

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CavilingaPBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Cavilinga
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Cavilinga
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cavilinga
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 118 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cavilinga lampra 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
2 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.
Cavilinga lampra and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Cavilinga lampra and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
117 taxa- Arcopsis solida2 sites
- Chione californiensis2 sites
- Dosinia ponderosa2 sites
- Leukoma grata2 sites
- Megapitaria squalida2 sites
- Mexicardia procera2 sites
- Semele2 sites
- Acanthina1 site
- Acteocina inculta1 site
- Agaronia testacea1 site
- Anomia peruviana1 site
- Antisabia panamensis1 site
- Antropora tincta1 site
- Argopecten ventricosus1 site
- Atilia1 site
- Atrina1 site
- Balanus improvisus1 site
- Barbatia (Calloarca) alternata1 site
- Barbatia illota1 site
- Brachidontes semilaevis1 site
- Bulla gouldiana1 site
- Calyptraea mamillaris1 site
- Carditamera affinis1 site
- Caryocorbula biradiata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cavilinga lampra, 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
2 references- Paleoecology and paleoenvironments of the Pleistocene deposits of Bahia la Choya (Gulf of California, Sonora, Mexico)1
- Marine Pleistocene Invertebrates from near Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Cavilinga lampra
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Cavilinga lampra 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCavilinga through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1901)