Codakia tigerina

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CodakiaPBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Codakia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Codakia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Codakia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.
29 occurrences of Codakia tigerina 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
29 occurrences- Miocene3%
- Pliocene7%
- Pleistocene90%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
4 formations
- Abbas Formation6
- "Riukiu Limestone" Formation2
- "Old Reef Limestone" Formation1
- Dubar Formation · Guban Group1
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The named rock units Codakia tigerina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Codakia tigerina and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Codakia tigerina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
390 taxa- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata8 sites
- Conus7 sites
- Conus arenatus7 sites
- Periglypta reticulata7 sites
- Plicatula plicata7 sites
- Strombus (Gibberulus) gibberulus7 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) lacerata6 sites
- Chama6 sites
- Chlamys sanguinolenta6 sites
- Tibia6 sites
- Tritia6 sites
- Arca imbricata arabica5 sites
- Cerithium5 sites
- Circe pectinata5 sites
- Erosaria turdus5 sites
- Lima lima5 sites
- Mimachlamys senatoria5 sites
- Natica5 sites
- Rhinoclavis (Rhinoclavis) fasciata5 sites
- Strombus fasciatus5 sites
- Arca4 sites
- Asaphis deflorata4 sites
- Barbatia (Ustularca) fusca4 sites
- Cardita variegata4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Codakia tigerina, 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
13 references- Molluschi delle spiagge emerse del Mar Rosso e dell'Oceano Indiano, parte II (Lamellibranchi) [Mollusks from raised beaches bordering the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, part II (bivalves)]6
- The geology of the Farsan Islands, Oizan and Kamaran Island, Red Sea. Part 2.- Molluscan palaeontology.6
- Mollusques Pleistocenes de la Cote Francaise des Somalis [Pleistocene molluscs from French Somaliland]4
- Pleistocene Coral Reef Terraces on the Saudi Arabian Side of the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea2
- Fossil and recent Mollusca from the island of Kita-Daito-Zima2
- Catalogue of the Tertiary and Quaternary Mollusca from the Island of Taiwan (Formosa) in the Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Tohoku Imperial University, Sendai, Japan, Part 1: Pelecypoda2
- Biofacies and diagenetic alterations of the Pleistocene coral reefs, northwest Red Sea coast, Saudi Arabia1
- Facies pattern and molluscan fauna of the Late Pleistocene raised coral reef of Rabigh area, Red Sea coast, Saudi Arabia1
- Palaeoecology of well-preserved coral communities in a siliciclastic environment from the Late Pleistocene (MIS 7), Kish Island, Persian Gulf (Iran): the development of low-relief reef frameworks (biostromes) in increasingly restricted environments1
- Stratigraphy, palaeoenvironments and model for the deposition of the Abdur Reef Limestone: context for an important archaeological site from the last interglacial on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea1
- Tawadros, 20011
- L'Oligocene e il Miocene della Somalia. Stratigrafia, Tettonica, Paleontologia (Macroforaminferi, Coralli, Molluschi)1
Each of the 29 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. 1 further reference is 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 content1

Picture of Codakia tigerina
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Philippe Bourjon
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCodakia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)