Donax striatus

Donax striatus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 1.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPliocene — about 10 of 10 occurrencesPliocene5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.3–5.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.2–5.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.1–5.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.0–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–4.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.8–4.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.7–4.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.6–4.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.6–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–4.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.4–4.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.1–4.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.0–3.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.9–3.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.8–3.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.6–3.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.83 Mya3.1 Mya

10 occurrences of Donax striatus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

10 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

2 formations

Morne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WTalparo — 10.63°N, 61.28°W

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The named rock units Donax striatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Donax striatus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Donax striatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

142 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Donax striatus, 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

2 references

Each of the 10 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 Donax striatus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Donax striatus 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 itDonax through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1767