Rangia (Rangia) cuneata

Rangia (Rangia) cuneata

Paulius Rupšas · CC BY 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
Rangia (Rangia)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Mactridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Mactridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Mactridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 44 occurrencesPliocene — about 5 of 44 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 34 of 44 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 5 of 44 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.3–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–1.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.9–1.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.8–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.2–972 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence194 ka–0 Mya — about 26 occurrences2.58 Mya11.7 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

44 occurrences of Rangia (Rangia) cuneata 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

44 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

13 formations

Caloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WTalbot — 39.29°N, 76.38°WTalbot — 39.22°N, 76.48°WTalbot — 38.15°N, 76.43°WTalbot — 38.29°N, 76.64°WTalbot — 38.40°N, 77.12°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WAcredale — 36.73°N, 76.34°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.75°N, 81.39°WPamlico — 34.78°N, 76.69°WPamlico — 34.04°N, 77.89°WPamlico — 33.56°N, 79.08°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WMichoud — 30.05°N, 89.96°WPensacola — 30.25°N, 88.69°WNorfolk — 36.92°N, 76.49°WDeltaic Mud — 30.05°N, 89.96°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WBear Bluff — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCharlton — 31.16°N, 81.86°W

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The named rock units Rangia (Rangia) cuneata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rangia (Rangia) cuneata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Rangia (Rangia) cuneata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

991 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Rangia (Rangia) cuneata, 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

16 references

Each of the 44 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Rangia (Rangia) cuneata

Source
GBIF
Credit
Paulius Rupšas
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rangia (Rangia) cuneata 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1831)