Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii

Scapharca diluvii (Lamarck, 1805), a relative of Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii — not Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii itself

Not Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii. This is Scapharca diluvii (Lamarck, 1805), a relative — both are Arcidae.

Naturalis Biodiversity Center · CC0 · 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
Scapharca (Scapharca)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Anadara
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Anadara
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Anadara
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 3 of 95 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 75 of 95 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 95 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 95 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 11 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence23.04 Mya129 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

95 occurrences of Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

95 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

18 formations

Berada — 51.10°N, 5.80°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°EKoronia — 35.08°N, 33.17°ENicosia — 35.10°N, 33.15°EPinczow — 50.53°N, 20.53°ENiechobrz — 49.92°N, 21.87°ELychow — 50.69°N, 22.03°ERosignano Limestone — 43.50°N, 10.43°EGavdos — 34.83°N, 24.08°EApostoli — 35.25°N, 24.58°EKourtes — 35.20°N, 25.10°EPielach — 48.22°N, 15.36°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°ETahria — 36.00°N, 0.60°EMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EArgille Azzurre — 43.58°N, 10.92°E

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The named rock units Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 68 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii and its relatives

Miocene

Where Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

842 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 88 sites for Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

28 references

Each of the 95 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. 16 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 Scapharca diluvii (Lamarck, 1805)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
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
Scapharca inaequivalvis · usnm:invertebrate zoology:90270

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. (Lamarck 1805)