Hiatella arenicola
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HiatellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hiatella
- Life habit
- boringPBDB, for Hiatella
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Hiatella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 8.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 192.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Hiatella arenicola on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
3 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Hiatella arenicola 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.
Hiatella arenicola and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Hiatella arenicola and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
118 taxa- ? Vioa michelini1 site
- Angyomphalus lens1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Arca1 site
- Archosauria1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Atreta intusstriata1 site
- Avicula1 site
- Avicula deshayesi1 site
- Avicula dunkeri1 site
- Bandelopsis exigua1 site
- Berenicea1 site
- Bourguetia deshayesea1 site
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cooperi1 site
- Cardinia1 site
- Cardinia concinna1 site
- Cardita1 site
- Catella hongkongensis1 site
- Cenoceras (Cenoceras) schlumbergeri1 site
- Cenoceras malherbii1 site
- Cenoceras striatum1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Chimaera (Ischyodon) johnsonii1 site
- Cirpa variabilis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Hiatella arenicola, 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- Early Jurassic bivalves from Sham Chung and Pat Kok Tsai, Hong Kong1
- Liassic bivalve fossils from Mount Jinji of Guangdong1
- Paléontologie de l’étage inférieur de la Formation Liasique de la Province de Luxembourg (Grand-Duché) et de Hettange, Département de la Moselle [Paleontology of the lower stage of the Liassic Formation of the Province of Luxembourg (Grand Duchy) and Hettange, Moselle Department]1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Hiatella arenicola was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hiatella arenicola, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hiatella arenicola 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itHiatella through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Terquem 1855)