Lucinoidea

Lucinidae, common name hatchet shells, is a family of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs.

Lucinoidea

GrahamBould · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
LucinidaPBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 458 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Ordovician — about 2 of 897 occurrencesSilurian — about 10 of 897 occurrencesDevonian — about 283 of 897 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 897 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 897 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 2 of 897 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 12 of 897 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 4 of 897 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 160 of 897 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 121 of 897 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 97 of 897 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 55 of 897 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 140 of 897 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 897 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 897 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 897 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 897 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 897 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 897 occurrences479–463 Mya — about 1 occurrence463–447 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences447–431 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences431–415 Mya — about 14 occurrences415–399 Mya — about 20 occurrences399–383 Mya — about 157 occurrences383–367 Mya — about 98 occurrences367–351 Mya — about 6 occurrences351–335 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences255–239 Mya — about 13 occurrences239–223 Mya — about 3 occurrences223–207 Mya — about 1 occurrence207–192 Mya — about 47 occurrences192–176 Mya — about 113 occurrences176–160 Mya — about 134 occurrences160–144 Mya — about 83 occurrences144–128 Mya — about 12 occurrences128–112 Mya — about 31 occurrences112–96 Mya — about 26 occurrences96–80 Mya — about 35 occurrences80–64 Mya — about 92 occurrences64–48 Mya — about 6 occurrences48–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence458.2 Mya129 ka479 Mya0 Mya

897 occurrences of Lucinoidea on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

897 occurrences

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

202 formations

Geneseo — 42.33°N, 74.45°WGeneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WGeneseo — 42.61°N, 75.30°WGeneseo — 42.44°N, 74.54°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.42°WGeneseo — 42.56°N, 74.85°WGeneseo — 42.62°N, 75.37°WGeneseo — 42.50°N, 75.52°WGeneseo — 42.60°N, 76.17°WGeneseo — 42.50°N, 74.78°WGeneseo — 42.61°N, 75.24°WGeneseo — 42.63°N, 75.46°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.86°WGeneseo — 42.61°N, 75.55°WGeneseo — 42.51°N, 74.68°WGeneseo — 42.52°N, 75.01°WGeneseo — 42.51°N, 75.13°WGeneseo — 42.64°N, 75.77°WGeneseo — 42.53°N, 74.87°WLime Creek — 43.05°N, 92.96°WLime Creek — 42.02°N, 93.45°WLime Creek — 43.83°N, 92.93°WLime Creek — 43.05°N, 92.97°WLime Creek — 43.83°N, 93.27°WLime Creek — 43.10°N, 92.93°WDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 25.17°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.53°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 26.92°N, 44.00°EDhruma — 25.78°N, 45.25°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 23.08°N, 46.33°EDhruma — 22.83°N, 46.83°EDhruma — 21.88°N, 45.83°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.70°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.97°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 26.20°N, 44.83°EDhruma — 26.33°N, 44.83°ETataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ETataouine — 32.00°N, 10.47°ESkaneateles — 42.94°N, 76.25°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 76.21°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 75.89°WSkaneateles — 42.98°N, 76.34°WSkaneateles — 42.88°N, 75.37°WSkaneateles — 42.81°N, 74.94°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 75.55°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.68°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.64°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.65°WChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°ESnyder Creek Shale — 38.75°N, 91.88°WSnyder Creek Shale — 38.72°N, 92.09°WSnyder Creek Shale — 38.81°N, 91.98°WSnyder Creek Shale — 38.83°N, 91.82°WSnyder Creek Shale — 38.72°N, 92.46°WSnyder Creek Shale — 38.82°N, 91.54°WSnyder Creek Shale — 42.13°N, 90.68°WTurmiel Fm — 40.40°N, 1.50°WDawson Bay — 51.02°N, 98.68°WDawson Bay — 51.65°N, 99.81°WDawson Bay — 53.00°N, 101.00°WDawson Bay — 52.88°N, 101.05°WDawson Bay — 52.78°N, 100.96°WDawson Bay — 52.74°N, 100.83°WDawson Bay — 52.46°N, 100.69°WDawson Bay — 52.08°N, 99.84°WBarahona Limestone — 41.93°N, 3.15°WBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°WShell Rock — 42.95°N, 92.83°WShell Rock — 43.15°N, 93.00°WShell Rock — 43.33°N, 92.82°WShell Rock — 43.83°N, 92.93°WShell Rock — 43.14°N, 93.00°WFjerritslev — 56.56°N, 10.01°EAtherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WPrairie Bluff — 33.89°N, 88.96°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.16°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.31°N, 87.80°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.13°N, 87.40°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WBlue Lias — 50.00°N, 2.00°WBlue Lias — 51.00°N, 3.00°WAlmonacid de la Cuba — 41.29°N, 0.79°WErtang — 24.10°N, 109.98°EErtang — 24.98°N, 109.98°EErtang — 23.60°N, 109.65°EErtang — 23.87°N, 109.77°ELudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.35°WLudlowville — 42.93°N, 76.22°WLudlowville — 42.95°N, 76.02°WLudlowville — 42.93°N, 76.00°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.51°WLudlowville — 42.82°N, 75.53°WSot de Chera — 41.47°N, 1.42°WMoscow — 42.83°N, 75.78°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.57°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.46°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.50°WCape Stewart — 70.45°N, 22.65°WCape Stewart — 70.44°N, 22.65°WCape Stewart — 70.47°N, 22.36°WCape Stewart — 70.46°N, 22.33°WMoreno — 37.27°N, 121.17°WMoreno — 37.24°N, 121.14°WAmaltheenton — 49.79°N, 11.04°EAmaltheenton — 52.06°N, 8.34°EAmaltheenton — 52.15°N, 7.51°EAmaltheenton — 49.35°N, 11.36°E

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The named rock units Lucinoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 178 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 177 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lucinoidea and its relatives

Devonian

Where Lucinoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

2,118 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 728 sites for Lucinoidea, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

194 references

Each of the 897 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. 182 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

Media content1

Picture of Lucinoidea

Credit
GrahamBould
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itLucinida through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fleming 1828