Donax (Paradonax) gracilis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Donax (Paradonax)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Donax
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Donax
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Donax
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
4 occurrences of Donax (Paradonax) gracilis 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene25%
- Pleistocene73%
- Holocene2%
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 Donax (Paradonax) gracilis 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.
Donax (Paradonax) gracilis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Donax (Paradonax) gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
168 taxa- Anomia peruviana2 sites
- Argopecten ventricosus2 sites
- Calyptraea mamillaris2 sites
- Caryocorbula marmorata2 sites
- Chione californiensis2 sites
- Conus regularis2 sites
- Dosinia dunkeri2 sites
- Hexaplex erythrostomus2 sites
- Juliacorbula bicarinata2 sites
- Leukoma grata2 sites
- Lirophora mariae2 sites
- Mactrotoma californica2 sites
- Mexicardia procera2 sites
- Oliva spicata2 sites
- Polinices uber2 sites
- Pteria sterna2 sites
- Raeta undulata2 sites
- Saccostrea palmula2 sites
- Tellina (Eurytellina) regia2 sites
- Theodoxus (Vittoclithon) luteofasciatus2 sites
- Acanthina1 site
- Acteocina inculta1 site
- Adrana exoptata1 site
- Agaronia testacea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Donax (Paradonax) gracilis, 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- Quaternary invertebrate fossil assemblages from coastal marine ecosystems of Bahia de Panama, Panama1
- Paleoecology and paleoenvironments of the Pleistocene deposits of Bahia la Choya (Gulf of California, Sonora, Mexico)1
- Marine Pleistocene Invertebrates from near Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico1
- A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Donax (Paradonax) gracilis 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 Donax (Paradonax) gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Donax (Paradonax) gracilis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hanley 1845)