Pandora (Pandora) glacialis

Elena Kudryavtseva · 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
- Pandora (Pandora)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pandora
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Pandora
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pandora
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 762 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
7 occurrences of Pandora (Pandora) glacialis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
7 occurrences- Pleistocene71%
- Holocene29%
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 Pandora (Pandora) glacialis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pandora (Pandora) glacialis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Pandora (Pandora) glacialis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum1 site
- Elphidium1 site
- Islandiella1 site
- Macoma (Macoma) balthica1 site
- Macoma (Macoma) calcarea1 site
- Mya (Mya) pseudoarenaria1 site
- Mya (Mya) truncata1 site
- Portlandia arctica1 site
- Protelphidium1 site
- Yoldiella nana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pandora (Pandora) glacialis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
4 references- Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America3
- Molluscan palaeontology of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Kap Kobenhavn Formation, North Greenland2
- Quaternary marine stratigraphy and geochronology in central West Greenland1
- Late Quaternary Marine Fossils from Frobisher Bay (Baffin Island, N.W.T. Canada)1
Each of the 7 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 content2

Picture of Pandora (Pandora) glacialis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Elena Kudryavtseva
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Pandora (Pandorella) glacialis · USNM:IZ:USNM 444667
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPandora (Pandora) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leach 1819)