Dallarca staminea

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DallarcaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Anadarinae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Anadarinae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Anadarinae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae
Time the record covers
At least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
19 occurrences of Dallarca staminea on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
19 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
- Choptank Formation · Chesapeake Group17
- Kirkwood Formation2
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The named rock units Dallarca staminea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dallarca staminea and its relatives
MioceneWhere Dallarca staminea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
168 taxa- Bicorbula idonea17 sites
- Chesapecten (Chesapecten) nefrens17 sites
- Chesacardium laqueatum16 sites
- Dosinia acetabulum15 sites
- Astarte thisphila14 sites
- Concavus concavus13 sites
- Mariacolpus plebeia13 sites
- Pitar13 sites
- Corbula inaequalis12 sites
- Ecphora12 sites
- Marvacrassatella turgidula12 sites
- Spisula (Hemimactra) subparilis12 sites
- Euspira heros11 sites
- Isognomon maxillata11 sites
- Mercenaria10 sites
- Parvilucina crenulata10 sites
- Stewartia anodonta9 sites
- Crucibulum multilineatum8 sites
- Decapoda8 sites
- Discinisca lugubris8 sites
- Turritella (Torcula) variabilis8 sites
- Calliostoma7 sites
- Macrocallista marylandica7 sites
- Semele carinata7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Dallarca staminea, 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
4 references- Stratigraphy, invertebrate taphonomy and depositional history of the Miocene Calvert and Choptank Formations, Atlantic Coastal Plain13
- Geological and paleontological relations, with a review of earlier investigations4
- Well-boring at Brandywine Lighthouse in Delaware Bay. Part I. - Geology and Macrofossils1
- Miocene invertebrate fauna of New Jersey1
Each of the 19 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 Dallarca staminea
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Dallarca staminea 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 itDallarca through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Say 1832)