Glans carpenteri

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Carpenter's carditidPBDB
- Sits inside
- GlansPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Carditidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Carditidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Carditidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At least 1.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
69 occurrences of Glans carpenteri 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
69 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
7 formations
- Unnamed Formation12
- Palos Verdes Sand Formation8
- Quaternary terrace Formation4
- Lomita Marl Formation4
- San Pedro Sand Formation3
- Careaga Sandstone Formation2
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The named rock units Glans carpenteri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Glans carpenteri and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Glans carpenteri and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
1,106 taxa- Callianax biplicata43 sites
- Epilucina californica41 sites
- Chlorostoma funebrale38 sites
- Californiconus californicus36 sites
- Littorina (Littorina) scutulata36 sites
- Lottia scabra36 sites
- Crepidula adunca35 sites
- Fissurella volcano35 sites
- Thylacodes squamigerus35 sites
- Homalopoma (Homalopoma) luridum34 sites
- Diodora aspera32 sites
- Leukoma staminea32 sites
- Amphissa versicolor31 sites
- Nutricola tantilla31 sites
- Lottia insessa29 sites
- Acmaea mitra28 sites
- Alia carinata27 sites
- Cumingia californica27 sites
- Hipponix tumens26 sites
- Mytilus californianus26 sites
- Atrimitra idae25 sites
- Crassadoma gigantea25 sites
- Lottia limatula25 sites
- Crepipatella lingulata24 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Glans carpenteri, 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
23 references- Geology of San Nicolas Island, California12
- Late Pleistocene molluscan faunas from upper terraces of the Palos Verdes Hills, California7
- Geology and Paleontology of Palos Verdes Hills, California7
- Paleontology of the Pleistocene of Point Loma, San Diego County, California7
- Late Pleistocene megafauna of Cayucos, California, and its zoogeographic significance5
- Late Pleistocene faunas from the northwestern coast of Baja California, Mexico4
- The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California4
- Pleistocene invertebrates from Punta China, Baja California, Mexico, with remarks on the composition of the Pacific coast Quaternary faunas3
- Modern Death Assemblages and Pleistocene Fossil Assemblages in Open Coast High Energy Environments, San Nicolas Island, California2
- Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California2
- Pleistocene invertebrates from Punta Baja, Baja California, Mexico2
- Geology and paleontology of the Santa Maria District California2
Each of the 69 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. 11 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
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Picture of Glans carpenteri
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No 3D scan of Glans carpenteri was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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. (Lamy 1922)