Sanguinolaria

Sanguinolaria is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs of the family Psammobiidae.

Sanguinolaria

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
SanguinolariinaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 19 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 19 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 19 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 19 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 19 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–9.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.3–7.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.3–5.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.4–3.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.4–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences48.07 Mya3.6 Mya60 Mya1 Mya

19 occurrences of Sanguinolaria on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

19 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

14 formations

Barton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.57°WBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WJama — 0.20°N, 80.27°WMancora — 5.20°S, 80.63°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WBurgeschleinitz — 48.63°N, 15.78°ECharco Azul — 8.03°N, 82.92°WOkinoshima — 32.72°N, 132.55°EBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WDegari — 30.08°N, 67.22°ERio Banano — 9.62°N, 82.83°WTopanga Canyon — 34.10°N, 118.58°W

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The named rock units Sanguinolaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sanguinolaria and its relatives

Eocene

Where Sanguinolaria and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

398 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Sanguinolaria, 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 19 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 content2

Picture of Sanguinolaria

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Sanguinolaria sanguinolenta · USNM:IZ:USNM 589922

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSanguinolariinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1799)