Fugleria tenera

Adams, 1845 · CC0 · 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- Also called
- Delicate ArkPBDB
- Sits inside
- FugleriaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Fugleria
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fugleria
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Fugleria
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae
Time the record covers
At most 763 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 774 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Fugleria tenera 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
2 formations
- Bermont Formation3
- Falmouth Formation · Coastal Group1
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The named rock units Fugleria tenera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fugleria tenera and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Fugleria tenera and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
321 taxa- Juliacorbula scutata3 sites
- Aequipecten2 sites
- Anadara2 sites
- Anadara (Larkinia) transversa2 sites
- Anomia simplex2 sites
- Arcinella cornuta2 sites
- Arcopsis adamsi2 sites
- Brachidontes exustus2 sites
- Calliostoma2 sites
- Callucina keenae2 sites
- Carditamera floridana2 sites
- Chama congregata2 sites
- Chione cancellata2 sites
- Conradostrea sculpturata2 sites
- Crassinella lunulata2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Dinocardium robustum2 sites
- Diodora2 sites
- Diodora cayenensis2 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans2 sites
- Episcynia inornata2 sites
- Epitonium2 sites
- Fasciolaria2 sites
- Gastrochaena hians2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Fugleria tenera, 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
3 references- Mollusca of the "Glades" unit in southern Florida: Part I Introduction and observations2
- The benthic mollusk faunas of two contrasting reef paleosubenvironments: Falmouth Formation (late Pleistocene, last interglacial), Jamaica1
- The Pleistocene molluscan fauna from Leisley Shell Pit 1, Hillsborough County, Florida1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2

Picture of Fugleria tenera
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Adams, 1845
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Fugleria tenera · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:183739
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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What may have been alongside itFugleria through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reeve 1844)