Retrotapes

Retrotapes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TapetiniPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 36 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 36 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 36 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 15 of 36 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.6–4.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

36 occurrences of Retrotapes 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

36 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

15 formations

Pampa del Palo terrace — 17.58°S, 71.17°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.05°S, 70.79°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.05°S, 70.79°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.15°S, 70.93°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.13°S, 70.92°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.23°S, 68.92°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.12°S, 68.48°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.37°S, 69.05°WSan Julian — 47.13°S, 66.05°WChenque — 45.30°S, 69.03°WChenque — 45.73°S, 67.50°WMonte Leon — 50.32°S, 68.86°WSan Julián — 47.03°S, 66.70°WLomas Terrace — 30.33°S, 74.75°WSan Juan Terrace — 15.33°S, 75.17°WHuacllaco — 15.90°S, 74.17°WTubul — 37.83°S, 73.33°WPongo — 15.53°S, 74.73°WFormación Coquimbo — 30.12°S, 71.31°WDepósitos Litorales — 28.43°S, 71.18°WGaiman — 43.36°S, 65.45°W

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The named rock units Retrotapes 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.

Retrotapes and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Retrotapes and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

264 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Retrotapes, 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

15 references

Each of the 36 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. 3 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 content3

Picture of Retrotapes

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

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Retrotapes exalbida · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:321557

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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 itTapetini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. del Rio 1997