Lamelliconcha circinata

Thiago de Freitas Cordeiro · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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- Sits inside
- LamelliconchaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lamelliconcha
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Lamelliconcha
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lamelliconcha
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
10 occurrences of Lamelliconcha circinata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
10 occurrences- Miocene70%
- Pliocene20%
- Pleistocene10%
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
5 formations
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The named rock units Lamelliconcha circinata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lamelliconcha circinata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Lamelliconcha circinata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
162 taxa- Polinices hepaticus4 sites
- Conasprella (Ximeniconus) kitteredgei3 sites
- Conus (Pyruconus) recognitus3 sites
- Stigmaulax sulcata3 sites
- Anadara (Cunearca) riocanensis2 sites
- Architectonica nobilis2 sites
- Astralium2 sites
- Bullaria paupercula2 sites
- Cancellaria (Cancellaria) harrisi2 sites
- Cassis sulcifera2 sites
- Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus2 sites
- Conus furvoides2 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) sericea2 sites
- Mitra henekeni2 sites
- Muracypraea henekeni2 sites
- Neverita nereidis2 sites
- Oliva cristobalcoloni2 sites
- Oliva cylindrica2 sites
- Oliva giraudi2 sites
- Pachycrommium guppyi2 sites
- Pallacera guadelupensis2 sites
- Parvilucina yaquensis2 sites
- Pitaria2 sites
- Semicassis reclusa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Lamelliconcha circinata, 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
7 references- Santo Domingo type sections and fossils3
- The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica2
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- Algunos moluscos del Terciario Medio de Colombia1
- Marine Miocene and related deposits of North Colombia1
- A contribution to the paleontology of Trinidad1
Each of the 10 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. 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
Media content1

Picture of Lamelliconcha circinata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Thiago de Freitas Cordeiro
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Lamelliconcha circinata 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Born 1778)