Spisula (Spisula) isabelleana

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Spisula (Spisula)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spisula
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Spisula
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Spisula
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 129 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 3 of 6 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 3 of 6 occurrences147 ka–126 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126 ka–105 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105 ka–84 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences84 ka–63 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63 ka–42 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42 ka–21 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences629 ka0 Mya

6 occurrences of Spisula (Spisula) isabelleana 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

6 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

3 formations

Chuy — 33.95°S, 58.33°WChuy — 33.88°S, 53.52°WDestacamento — 35.77°S, 57.41°WLas Escobas — 35.58°S, 57.31°W

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The named rock units Spisula (Spisula) isabelleana 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.

Spisula (Spisula) isabelleana and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Spisula (Spisula) isabelleana and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

86 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Spisula (Spisula) isabelleana, 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

3 references

Each of the 6 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

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Spisula solidissima · USNM:IZ:USNM 37020

No picture of Spisula (Spisula) isabelleana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Spisula (Spisula) isabelleana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itSpisula (Spisula) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (dOrbigny 1846)