Dosinia santana

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DosiniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Dosinia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Dosinia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Dosinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Dosinia santana on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- 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 Dosinia santana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dosinia santana and its relatives
MioceneWhere Dosinia santana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Clavocerithium santana4 sites
- Larkinia santana4 sites
- Olivella santana4 sites
- Tivela (Pachydesma) inezana4 sites
- Crepidula diminutiva3 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana3 sites
- Kewia fairbanksi3 sites
- Turritella inezana santana3 sites
- Vaquerosella vaquerosensis3 sites
- Balanus2 sites
- Bittium topangensis2 sites
- Califrapana vaquerosensis2 sites
- Calyptraea filosa2 sites
- Calyptraea inornata2 sites
- Cheilostomata2 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) richthofeni2 sites
- Dallocardia vaquerosense2 sites
- Ocenebra milicentana2 sites
- Oliva (Oliva) californica2 sites
- Turritella inezana bicarina2 sites
- Anadara (Anadara) strongi1 site
- Anomia vaquerosensis1 site
- Bruclarkia barkeriana1 site
- Calyptraea costellata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Dosinia santana, 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 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 Dosinia santana
- 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 Dosinia santana 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 itDosinia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Loel and Corey 1932