Retrotapes lenticularis

Retrotapes lenticularis

jorgelaras · 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
RetrotapesPBDB
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 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 1 of 15 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 14 of 15 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 15 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.1–957 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences957 ka–820 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences820 ka–683 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences683 ka–547 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences547 ka–410 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.58 Mya129 ka4.1 Mya0 Mya

15 occurrences of Retrotapes lenticularis 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

15 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

8 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°WLomas Terrace — 30.33°S, 74.75°WSan Juan Terrace — 15.33°S, 75.17°WHuacllaco — 15.90°S, 74.17°WPongo — 15.53°S, 74.73°WFormación Coquimbo — 30.12°S, 71.31°WDepósitos Litorales — 28.43°S, 71.18°W

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

Retrotapes lenticularis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Retrotapes lenticularis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

76 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Retrotapes lenticularis, 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

7 references

Each of the 15 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 Retrotapes lenticularis

Source
GBIF
Credit
jorgelaras
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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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What may have been alongside itRetrotapes through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Broderip and Sowerby 1835)