Panopea undatoides

Panopea undatoides

via iDigBio · CC0 · via iDigBio. 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
PanopeaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Panopea
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Panopea
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Panopea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 6 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPliocene — about 3 of 6 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 6 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–3.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.4–1.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences33.9 Mya5.333 Mya57 Mya2 Mya

6 occurrences of Panopea undatoides 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

6 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

2 formations

Polonez Cove — 62.25°S, 59.00°WRio Turbio — 51.53°S, 72.30°W

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The named rock units Panopea undatoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

44 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Panopea undatoides, 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 references

Each of the 6 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 Panopea undatoides

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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. (Ortmann 1902)