Lucina columbella

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LucinaPBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucina
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Lucina
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucina
- 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.
24 occurrences of Lucina columbella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
24 occurrences- Oligocene13%
- Miocene79%
- Pleistocene8%
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
- Upper Cyrena Formation1
- Lychow Formation1
- Weglin Formation1
- Gavdos Formation1
- Apostoli Formation1
- Nari Formation1
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The named rock units Lucina columbella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lucina columbella and its relatives
MioceneWhere Lucina columbella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
679 taxa- Chama gryphoides12 sites
- Aequipecten11 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata11 sites
- Cardium10 sites
- Cubitostrea digitalina10 sites
- Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii10 sites
- Anadara9 sites
- Chlamys9 sites
- Ctena decussata9 sites
- Pecten aduncus9 sites
- Talochlamys multistriata9 sites
- Arca noae8 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymeris)8 sites
- Lithophaga lithophaga8 sites
- Spondylus gaederopus8 sites
- Varicorbula gibba8 sites
- Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella8 sites
- Acar7 sites
- Cardita7 sites
- Corbula carinata7 sites
- Lima lima7 sites
- Microloripes7 sites
- Neopycnodonte navicularis7 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) nucleus7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Lucina columbella, 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
13 references- Les formations recifales coralliennes du Miocene superieur d'Algerie et du Maroc [Upper Miocene coral reef formations from Algeria and Morocco]5
- Bivalve Molluscs from the Badenian of Northwestern Bulgaria4
- Middle Miocene bivalve faunas from the carbonate deposits of Poland (Central Paratethys)2
- Biozonation of the Neogene invertebrate megafauna of the Hellenic area2
- Lithofazielle Entwicklung und Molluskenfauna des oberen Badeniens (Miozän M4d) in dem Gebiet Bratislava-Devinska Nova Ves [Lithofacies and mollusc fauna of the Upper Badenian in the Bratislava-Devinska Nova Ves area]2
- Mollusc fauna of the Hungarian Upper Oligocene (Egerian)2
- Biodiversity structure of an exceptionally preserved Aquitanian bivalve assemblage (Meilhan, SW France)1
- Discovery of two teeth of Squalodon (Cetacea Odontoceti) in the Burdigalian of SW France (Martillac, Leognan). Comments about the Squalodon from Aquitaine Basin, the paleoecology of the outcrops, and the type species of the genus1
- Los Bivalvos fosiles de las Canarias orientale1
- The marine Quaternary of the Canary Islands1
- On the occurrence of marine Miocene in Palestine1
- Notes on the Neogene faunas of Cyprus, II.1
Each of the 24 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. 1 further reference is 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
Media content1

Picture of Lucina columbella
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- H. Zell
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lucina columbella 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 itLucina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1818)