Chione

Chione is a genus of common, edible marine bivalve molluscs, in the family Veneridae, which arose in the early Miocene or Late Eocene in the tropical Western Atlantic region. Species of the genus are today distributed across the Western Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Some members of the genus were amongst the first animals to be scientifically classified. Others have been a significant food source for indigenous people. They are the most common bivalves, both living and fossil, in Florida.

Chione

RealGatba · CC0 · via Wikipedia/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
VenerinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 560 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 560 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 560 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 34 of 560 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 146 of 560 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 136 of 560 occurrencesPleistocene — about 231 of 560 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 6 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 6 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 8 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 11 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 19 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 31 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 29 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 19 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 13 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 13 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 13 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 40 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 118 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 221 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

560 occurrences of Chione 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

560 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

128 formations

Caloosahatchee — 25.91°N, 81.36°WCaloosahatchee — 25.75°N, 81.94°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.77°N, 81.15°WCaloosahatchee — 26.70°N, 80.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.34°N, 80.86°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WWaccamaw — 34.29°N, 78.51°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.23°N, 77.94°WWaccamaw — 33.97°N, 78.39°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 33.86°N, 78.55°WWaccamaw — 33.63°N, 79.16°WWaccamaw — 32.98°N, 79.89°WTamiami — 26.70°N, 80.99°WTamiami — 26.67°N, 80.94°WTamiami — 26.64°N, 80.94°WTamiami — 26.37°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 26.21°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 26.10°N, 80.84°WTamiami — 25.67°N, 80.31°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.59°N, 84.58°WChipola — 30.06°N, 84.49°WChipola — 30.33°N, 82.76°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.79°N, 81.30°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WFort Thompson — 26.96°N, 81.17°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 34.04°N, 77.89°WPamlico — 34.78°N, 76.69°WPamlico — 35.00°N, 76.79°WPamlico — 35.25°N, 76.57°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 35.59°N, 76.23°WGuadal — 47.00°S, 72.43°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WCastilletes — 11.94°N, 71.32°WCastilletes — 11.98°N, 71.29°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.36°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 2.58°S, 43.38°WPirabas — 1.66°S, 45.37°WPirabas — 2.88°S, 41.67°WPirabas — 3.09°S, 41.78°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WPalembang — 2.92°S, 104.75°EJimol — 11.85°N, 71.33°WJimol — 11.93°N, 71.42°WJimol — 11.98°N, 71.42°WJimol — 12.00°N, 71.31°WMint Spring — 30.98°N, 88.73°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WMint Spring — 32.36°N, 90.87°WMint Spring — 32.47°N, 90.84°WMint Spring — 31.66°N, 88.66°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WDuplin — 34.62°N, 79.01°WAnastasia — 26.65°N, 80.45°WAnastasia — 26.93°N, 80.09°WAnastasia — 26.33°N, 80.13°WAnastasia — 26.98°N, 80.08°WWare — 11.91°N, 71.28°WWare — 11.96°N, 71.28°WWare — 11.81°N, 71.38°WVaqueros — 34.04°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 35.27°N, 120.60°WVaqueros — 36.07°N, 121.28°WVaqueros — 36.18°N, 121.31°W

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The named rock units Chione has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 104 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 134 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chione and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Chione and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

4,019 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 295 sites for Chione, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

158 references

Each of the 560 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. 146 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Chione

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Commercial use
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CT scan

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Chione cancellata · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:184007

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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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 itVenerinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (von Mühlfield 1811)