Dosinia (Dosinia) concentrica

Juan Manuel de Roux · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- Dosinia (Dosinia)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Dosinia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Dosinia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Dosinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
17 occurrences of Dosinia (Dosinia) concentrica on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
17 occurrences- Miocene35%
- Pliocene41%
- Pleistocene12%
- Holocene12%
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
6 formations
- Pirabas Formation6
- Playa Grande Formation · Cabo Blanco Group3
- Mare Formation · Cabo Blanco Group3
- Boca Chica Formation1
- Araya Formation1
- Cumana Formation1
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The named rock units Dosinia (Dosinia) concentrica 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.
Dosinia (Dosinia) concentrica and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Dosinia (Dosinia) concentrica and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
378 taxa- Architectonica nobilis6 sites
- Turritella6 sites
- Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana5 sites
- Globivenus5 sites
- Plicatula5 sites
- Arcinella4 sites
- Argopecten4 sites
- Argopecten gibbus4 sites
- Chama4 sites
- Chicoreus (Chicoreus) brevifrons4 sites
- Chione (Lirophora) agraria4 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula)4 sites
- Diodora derbyi4 sites
- Glycymeris4 sites
- Laevicardium serratum4 sites
- Macrocallista maculata4 sites
- Mesalia rathbuni4 sites
- Naticarius canrena4 sites
- Orthaulax pugnax4 sites
- Trachycardium4 sites
- Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira4 sites
- Venericardia4 sites
- Venericardia perimetra4 sites
- Acanthocarpus obscurus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Dosinia (Dosinia) concentrica, 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- Localidades fossiliferas da Formacao Pirabas (Mioceno Inferior)6
- Late Cenozoic pelecypods from northern Venezuela5
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel4
- Geologia de la Peninsula de la Guajira2
Each of the 17 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 Dosinia (Dosinia) concentrica
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Juan Manuel de Roux
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Dosinia (Dosinia) concentrica 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 itDosinia (Dosinia) through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Born 1778)