Lunarca billingsiana
No picture of Lunarca billingsiana 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 Lunarca billingsiana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Anadara (Lunarca)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Anadara (Lunarca)
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Anadara (Lunarca)
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Anadara (Lunarca)
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
15 occurrences of Lunarca billingsiana on record. 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
15 occurrencesThese 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 Lunarca billingsiana 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.
Found in the same rock
175 taxa- Lucinisca roigi11 sites
- Naticarius canrena11 sites
- Saccella11 sites
- Trigoniocardia (Trigoniocardia)11 sites
- Caryocorbula (Caryocorbula)10 sites
- Chione veatchiana10 sites
- Lirophora10 sites
- Noetia (Eontia) centrota10 sites
- Pitar (Lamelliconcha)10 sites
- Abra aequalis9 sites
- Anadara9 sites
- Dentalium (Dentalium)9 sites
- Anachis (Anachis)8 sites
- Anomia simplex8 sites
- Argopecten8 sites
- Cerithium8 sites
- Chama macerophylla8 sites
- Diodora8 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes)7 sites
- Calyptraea centralis7 sites
- Donax striatus7 sites
- Eurytellina punicea7 sites
- Mulinia7 sites
- Juliacorbula aequivalvis6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Lunarca billingsiana, 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
2 referencesEach of the 15 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 content0
No picture of Lunarca billingsiana 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 Lunarca billingsiana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lunarca billingsiana 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 itAnadara (Lunarca) through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Maury 1912)