Fulvia

Fulvia is a genus of cockles, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Cardiidae. Most species are found in the Indo-Pacific and in Australian waters.

Fulvia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LaevicardiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cardiidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Cardiidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 18 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 18 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 18 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.5–2.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences27.3 Mya129 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

18 occurrences of Fulvia 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

18 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

10 formations

Toshima Sand — 34.62°N, 137.22°EAkasawa Silt — 34.67°N, 137.25°ENullarbor Limestone — 32.35°S, 123.63°ETamala Limestone — 32.04°S, 115.76°EDry Creek Sands — 34.85°S, 138.60°EHaneji — 26.62°N, 127.98°ETajima — 30.67°N, 131.00°ESakishima — 34.37°N, 136.82°ENyalindung — 7.48°S, 108.42°EKishima — 33.38°N, 129.93°E

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The named rock units Fulvia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fulvia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Fulvia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

628 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Fulvia, 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

11 references

Each of the 18 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 content3

Picture of Fulvia

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Fulvia aperta · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:135791

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLaevicardiinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1853)