Septifer bifurcatus

Septifer bifurcatus

Conrad, 1837 · CC0 · via Wikidata/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
Also called
bifurcate musselPBDB
Sits inside
SeptiferPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Septifer
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Septifer
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Septifer
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae

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 37 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 36 of 37 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 37 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 0.7 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.1–957 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences957 ka–820 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences820 ka–683 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence683 ka–547 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences547 ka–410 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 18 occurrences2.58 Mya129 ka4.1 Mya0 Mya

37 occurrences of Septifer bifurcatus 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

37 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

6 formations

Unnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WQuaternary terrace — 33.75°N, 118.33°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°W

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The named rock units Septifer bifurcatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Septifer bifurcatus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Septifer bifurcatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

886 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Septifer bifurcatus, 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

18 references

Each of the 37 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. 6 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 Septifer bifurcatus

Credit
Conrad, 1837
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Septifer bifurcatus 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 itSeptifer through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1837)