Donax texasianus
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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 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Donax texasianus on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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- Holocene100%
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 texasianus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Donax texasianus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Donax texasianus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Abra aequalis4 sites
- Acteocina canaliculata4 sites
- Angulus texanus4 sites
- Crassostrea virginica4 sites
- Crepidula fornicata4 sites
- Cyrtopleura costata4 sites
- Dinocardium robustum4 sites
- Dosinia discus4 sites
- Epitonium angulatum4 sites
- Lunarca ovalis4 sites
- Mercenaria campechiensis4 sites
- Mulinia lateralis4 sites
- Nassarius (Nassarius) acutus4 sites
- Nassarius vibex4 sites
- Neverita duplicatus4 sites
- Nuculana concentrica4 sites
- Oliva (Ispidula) sayana4 sites
- Periploma margaritaceum4 sites
- Prunum apicinum4 sites
- Raeta (Raeta) plicatella4 sites
- Solenosteira cancellaria4 sites
- Tellidora cristata4 sites
- Tellina (Eurytellina) alternata4 sites
- Tagelus divisus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Donax texasianus, 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- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary sediments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana2
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary seduments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana2
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
Media content1
Picture of Donax texasianus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Donax texasianus 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 HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Philippi 1847