Dentalium (Graptacme)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DentaliumPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Dentaliida
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Dentaliida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Dentaliida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Scaphopoda
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka.
16 occurrences of Dentalium (Graptacme) on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
16 occurrences- Miocene19%
- Pliocene69%
- Pleistocene13%
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
9 formations
- Talparo Formation5
- Chipola Formation · Alum Bluff Group2
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group2
- Tajima Formation2
- Mare Formation · Cabo Blanco Group1
- Oak Grove Formation · Alum Bluff Group1
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The named rock units Dentalium (Graptacme) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dentalium (Graptacme) and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Dentalium (Graptacme) and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
1,390 taxa- Arcopsis adamsi8 sites
- Calyptraea centralis8 sites
- Plicatula gibbosa7 sites
- Anadara6 sites
- Diodora6 sites
- Solariorbis6 sites
- Strioterebrum6 sites
- Tectonatica pusilla6 sites
- Triphora6 sites
- Acar domingensis5 sites
- Acteocina5 sites
- Anomia5 sites
- Architectonica5 sites
- Architectonica nobilis5 sites
- Chione cancellata5 sites
- Circulus5 sites
- Crassinella5 sites
- Crepidula plana5 sites
- Glyphostoma5 sites
- Gouldia5 sites
- Lirophora5 sites
- Macrocallista maculata5 sites
- Parvanachis obesa5 sites
- Polyschides5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Dentalium (Graptacme), 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
8 references- Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad5
- The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida3
- Pliocene marine fauna from Tane-ga-shima, South Kyushu, Japan2
- Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 1: Pelecypods and Scaphopods2
- The benthic mollusk faunas of two contrasting reef paleosubenvironments: Falmouth Formation (late Pleistocene, last interglacial), Jamaica1
- Late Cenozoic scaphopods and serpulid polychaets from northern Venezuela1
- Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida1
- Miocene gastropods and scaphopods of the Choctawatchee Formation of Florida1
Each of the 16 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. 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
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No picture of Dentalium (Graptacme) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dentalium (Graptacme), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dentalium (Graptacme) 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.
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What may have been alongside itDentalium through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pilsbry and Sharpe 1897