Divalinga
Searched as Divalinga divaricata rotundoparva. The Paleobiology Database treats Divalinga as the accepted name.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LucininaePBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Divalinga on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Divalinga has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Divalinga and its relatives
MioceneWhere Divalinga and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
2,394 taxa- Corbula16 sites
- Anomia simplex13 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima11 sites
- Tellina11 sites
- Anadara (Larkinia) transversa10 sites
- Cerithium9 sites
- Chama9 sites
- Clavilithes9 sites
- Crassinella lunulata9 sites
- Mercenaria campechiensis9 sites
- Mulinia lateralis9 sites
- Cardium (Orthocardium) porulosum8 sites
- Crepidula fornicata8 sites
- Diplodonta8 sites
- Modiolus8 sites
- Neverita duplicatus8 sites
- Oliva (Ispidula) sayana8 sites
- Ostrea8 sites
- Pleuromeris tridentata8 sites
- Spondylus8 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata7 sites
- Busycon carica7 sites
- Conus7 sites
- Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Divalinga, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Divalinga
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Divalinga 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLucininae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Chavan 1951)