Raeta (Raeta) plicatella

Chuck Meyer · 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
- Raeta (Raeta)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Raeta
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Raeta
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Raeta
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 3.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
32 occurrences of Raeta (Raeta) plicatella 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
32 occurrences- Pliocene16%
- Pleistocene53%
- Holocene31%
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
12 formations
- Pamlico Formation6
- New Orleans Barrier Trend Formation2
- Michoud Formation2
- Acredale Formation2
- Chowan RIver Formation2
- Fort Thompson Formation2
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The named rock units Raeta (Raeta) plicatella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Raeta (Raeta) plicatella and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Raeta (Raeta) plicatella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
785 taxa- Abra aequalis13 sites
- Mulinia lateralis13 sites
- Neverita duplicatus12 sites
- Nuculana acuta12 sites
- Crassinella lunulata11 sites
- Crepidula fornicata11 sites
- Crepidula plana11 sites
- Nassarius (Nassarius) acutus10 sites
- Nassarius vibex10 sites
- Olivella mutica10 sites
- Bostrycapulus aculeatus9 sites
- Caryocorbula contracta9 sites
- Dinocardium robustum9 sites
- Lunarca ovalis9 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima9 sites
- Parvilucina multistriata9 sites
- Plicatula gibbosa9 sites
- Seila adamsii9 sites
- Solenosteira cancellaria9 sites
- Tectonatica pusilla9 sites
- Anomia simplex8 sites
- Chione cancellata8 sites
- Crassostrea virginica8 sites
- Cyrtopleura costata8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Raeta (Raeta) plicatella, 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
12 references- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions7
- Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America4
- The Pleistocene molluscan fauna from Leisley Shell Pit 1, Hillsborough County, Florida3
- Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine3
- Paleontologia de los sedimentos marinos holocenos de los alrededores de Bahia Blanca, Provincia de Buenos Aires3
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary sediments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana3
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary seduments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana3
- The fauna and paleoecology of the Late Pleistocene marine sediments of southeastern Virginia2
- Mollusca: Fort Thompson Formation (Late Pleistocene)1
- Neogene and Quaternary geology of a stratigraphic test hole on Horn Island, Mississippi Sound1
- Late Cenozoic pelecypods from northern Venezuela1
- Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida1
Each of the 32 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 Raeta (Raeta) plicatella
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Chuck Meyer
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Raeta plicatella · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:208390
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 itRaeta (Raeta) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1818)