Etea

Etea

W. P. Popenoe · CC0 · 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
ArcticidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Venerida
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Venerida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Venerida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 125 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 117 of 125 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 125 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 125 occurrencesEocene102–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 8 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 8 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 8 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 8 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 8 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 8 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 17 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 19 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 19 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 11 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–62 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences93.9 Mya56 Mya102 Mya47 Mya

125 occurrences of Etea on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

125 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

32 formations

Roca — 37.56°S, 69.85°WRoca — 37.54°S, 69.87°WLadd — 33.73°N, 117.62°WLadd — 33.76°N, 117.66°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.65°WPrairie Bluff — 33.72°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.18°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WJalama — 34.53°N, 120.41°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WNacatoch Sand — 32.05°N, 96.41°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.11°WCoffee Sand — 34.56°N, 88.45°WCoffee Sand — 34.66°N, 88.57°WCoffee Sand — 34.43°N, 88.42°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 34.93°N, 88.52°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WBlack Creek — 34.67°N, 78.24°WBlack Creek — 35.23°N, 77.79°WBlack Creek — 35.22°N, 77.68°WBlack Creek — 35.46°N, 77.68°WManasquan — 40.20°N, 74.17°WManasquan — 39.97°N, 74.68°WManasquan — 39.81°N, 74.98°WManasquan — 40.23°N, 74.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.72°WPeedee — 33.99°N, 79.52°WPeedee — 33.90°N, 79.43°WPeedee — 34.48°N, 78.41°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WHornerstown — 40.15°N, 74.65°WHornerstown — 39.82°N, 75.01°WRipley — 32.05°N, 86.78°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WColeraine — 47.32°N, 93.28°WColeraine — 47.00°N, 93.00°WEscondido — 29.32°N, 99.27°WEscondido — 28.26°N, 100.27°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMarshalltown — 39.54°N, 75.72°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WChiwapa — 34.51°N, 88.93°WCorsicana Marl — 29.49°N, 98.19°WEutaw — 32.39°N, 84.84°WCrosswicks Clay — 39.54°N, 75.72°WEnglishtown — 39.55°N, 75.70°W

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The named rock units Etea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Etea and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Etea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,103 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 116 sites for Etea, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

30 references

Each of the 125 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. 18 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 Etea

Source
GBIF
Credit
W. P. Popenoe
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Etea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 1873