Periglypta tarquinia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PeriglyptaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Periglypta
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Periglypta
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Periglypta
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
13 occurrences of Periglypta tarquinia 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
13 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
8 formations
- Culebra Formation4
- Arcadia Formation · Hawthorn Group2
- Cercado Formation1
- Gurabo Formation1
- Quebradillas Limestone Formation1
- San Sebastian Formation1
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The named rock units Periglypta tarquinia 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.
Periglypta tarquinia and its relatives
MioceneWhere Periglypta tarquinia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
293 taxa- Lamarcka imbricata3 sites
- Ampullinopsis spenceri2 sites
- Arca (Arca)2 sites
- Callocardia (Agriopoma)2 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta2 sites
- Chama2 sites
- Crassostrea2 sites
- Cubitostrea rugifera2 sites
- Flabellipecten antiguensis2 sites
- Haminoea2 sites
- Lithophaga antillarum2 sites
- Lithophaga nigra2 sites
- Miltha hillsboroensis2 sites
- Mitra (Tiara)2 sites
- Mitra henekeni2 sites
- Murex2 sites
- Nassarius2 sites
- Phacoides wacissanus2 sites
- Pleurodonte2 sites
- Spondylus scotti2 sites
- Strombus2 sites
- Tellina2 sites
- Tellina (Tellinella)2 sites
- Trachycardium2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Periglypta tarquinia, 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
6 references- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae).7
- Molluscs of the Tampa and Suwannee Limestones2
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions1
- The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica1
- Tertiary Mollusca from Porto Rico1
- Santo Domingo type sections and fossils1
Each of the 13 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 Periglypta tarquinia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Periglypta tarquinia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
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What may have been alongside itPeriglypta through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1900)