Euvola raveneli
Euvola raveneli, or Ravenel's scallop, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Pectinidae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, ranging from North Carolina to the West Indies.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EuvolaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pectinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 1.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
4 occurrences of Euvola raveneli on record. 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- Miocene18%
- Pliocene46%
- Pleistocene37%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Euvola raveneli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
367 taxa- Anadara (Rasia) lienosa3 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima3 sites
- Abra aequalis2 sites
- Akleistostoma carolinensis2 sites
- Anadara2 sites
- Anomalocardia2 sites
- Anomia simplex2 sites
- Arcinella cornuta2 sites
- Callucina keenae2 sites
- Chione cancellata2 sites
- Conradostrea sculpturata2 sites
- Crassinella lunulata2 sites
- Crassostrea virginica2 sites
- Diplodonta2 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans2 sites
- Epitonium2 sites
- Eucrassatella speciosa2 sites
- Laevicardium serratum2 sites
- Lindapecten muscosus2 sites
- Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata2 sites
- Lucina pensylvanica2 sites
- Mercenaria campechiensis2 sites
- Mulinia2 sites
- Mulinia congesta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Euvola raveneli, 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- Neogene and Quaternary geology of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire1
- Mollusca of the "Glades" unit in southern Florida: Part I Introduction and observations1
- Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Charlotte Harbor Area in Southwestern Florida1
- Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina. Part 1. Pelecypoda1
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. 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 Euvola raveneli
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Euvola raveneli 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itEuvola through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1898)