Semele proficua

Semele proficua

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SemelePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Semele
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Semele
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Semele
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPliocene — about 9 of 27 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 14 of 27 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 4 of 27 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences3.6 Mya11.7 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

27 occurrences of Semele proficua 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

27 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

12 formations

Morne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WIronshore — 19.33°N, 81.25°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WHorry Clay — 33.69°N, 78.89°WBoca Chica — 10.62°N, 64.00°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WChuy — 33.88°S, 53.52°W

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The named rock units Semele proficua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Semele proficua and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Semele proficua and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

630 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Semele proficua, 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

14 references

Each of the 27 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. 2 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 Semele proficua

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Semele proficua 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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What may have been alongside itSemele through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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