Diplodonta punctata

Diplodonta punctata, or the Atlantic diplodon, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Ungulinidae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, ranging from North Carolina to Bermuda, and south to Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. The shell length can reach 1.9 cm (0.75 in).

Diplodonta punctata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiplodontaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Diplodonta
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Diplodonta
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Diplodonta
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 14 of 16 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 16 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.1–957 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences957 ka–820 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences820 ka–683 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences683 ka–547 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences547 ka–410 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.58 Mya11.7 ka4.1 Mya0 Mya

16 occurrences of Diplodonta punctata 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

16 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

9 formations

Horry Clay — 34.97°N, 76.97°WHorry Clay — 33.69°N, 78.89°WIronshore — 19.33°N, 81.25°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WBelmont — 32.33°N, 64.69°WAnastasia — 26.93°N, 80.09°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.40°WBoca Chica — 10.62°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°W

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The named rock units Diplodonta punctata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diplodonta punctata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Diplodonta punctata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

83 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Diplodonta punctata, 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

9 references

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

Media content2

Picture of Diplodonta punctata

Source
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Licence
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CT scan

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Diplodonta punctata · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:176494

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
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 itDiplodonta through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Say 1822)