Ensis directus

Ensis directus

Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
EnsisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Ensis
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Ensis
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Ensis
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 83 occurrencesMiocene — about 15 of 83 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 83 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 56 of 83 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.7–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 38 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

83 occurrences of Ensis directus 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

83 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

22 formations

Pamlico — 38.55°N, 75.08°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 35.14°N, 76.77°WPamlico — 35.00°N, 76.79°WPamlico — 34.77°N, 76.65°WPamlico — 34.04°N, 77.89°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 36.33°N, 76.17°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WAcredale — 36.73°N, 76.34°WKirkwood — 39.08°N, 74.82°WKirkwood — 39.40°N, 75.04°WKirkwood — 39.46°N, 75.30°WKirkwood — 39.00°N, 75.12°WWaccamaw — 34.21°N, 81.31°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 33.97°N, 78.39°WHorry Clay — 34.97°N, 76.97°WHorry Clay — 33.69°N, 78.89°WChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WChowan RIver — 36.05°N, 76.73°WSt Mary's — 38.36°N, 76.39°WSt Mary's — 37.66°N, 76.75°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WGoose Creek — 33.33°N, 80.15°WGoose Creek — 33.03°N, 80.39°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WFlanner Beach — 35.06°N, 76.87°WNorfolk — 36.92°N, 76.49°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WPresumpscot — 43.64°N, 70.26°WTalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WCape May — 39.00°N, 75.12°W

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The named rock units Ensis directus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ensis directus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Ensis directus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

852 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Ensis directus, 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

16 references

Each of the 83 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. 4 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Ensis directus

Credit
Hans Hillewaert
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ensis directus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1844)