Globivenus rugatina
Globivenus rugatina, or the queen Venus clam, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Veneridae. 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
- GlobivenusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Globivenus
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Globivenus
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Globivenus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
4 occurrences of Globivenus rugatina 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- Miocene18%
- Pliocene8%
- Pleistocene75%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Globivenus rugatina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Globivenus rugatina and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Globivenus rugatina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
487 taxa- Lindapecten muscosus3 sites
- Tellina3 sites
- Abra aequalis2 sites
- Americardia media2 sites
- Anadara2 sites
- Anadara (Caloosarca) aequalitas2 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) lienosa2 sites
- Angulus versicolor2 sites
- Anomalocardia2 sites
- Anticlimax2 sites
- Aorotrema2 sites
- Arcopsis adamsi2 sites
- Argopecten anteamplicostata2 sites
- Bornia2 sites
- Brachidontes exustus2 sites
- Calliostoma2 sites
- Callucina keenae2 sites
- Chione cancellata2 sites
- Cochliolepis holmesi2 sites
- Cochliolepis striata2 sites
- Conradostrea sculpturata2 sites
- Crassinella2 sites
- Crassinella lunulata2 sites
- Crenella decussata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Globivenus rugatina, 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- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions1
- Neogene and Quaternary geology of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire1
- Mollusca of the "Glades" unit in southern Florida: Part I Introduction and observations1
- Pliocene Mollusca of Southern 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 content1
Picture of Globivenus rugatina
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Globivenus rugatina 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.
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 itGlobivenus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Heilprin 1886)