Striarca centenaria

Robert Parr Whitfield (†1910) · Public Domain · 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- Sits inside
- StriarcaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Arcidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Arcidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Arcidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
14 occurrences of Striarca centenaria 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
14 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Yorktown Formation6
- Eastover Formation · Chesapeake Group4
- Kirkwood Formation3
- St Mary's Formation · Chesapeake Group1
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The named rock units Striarca centenaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Striarca centenaria and its relatives
MioceneWhere Striarca centenaria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
175 taxa- Chesapecten madisonius6 sites
- Crepidula fornicata6 sites
- Euspira heros6 sites
- Hiatella arctica6 sites
- Parvilucina crenulata6 sites
- Turritella (Turritella) alticostata5 sites
- Astarte concentrica4 sites
- Balanus4 sites
- Bostrycapulus aculeatus4 sites
- Busycon4 sites
- Carditamera arata4 sites
- Conradostrea sculpturata4 sites
- Crepidula plana4 sites
- Crucibulum (Dispotaea) constrictum4 sites
- Cyclocardia granulata4 sites
- Marvacrassatella4 sites
- Noetia incile4 sites
- Yoldia laevis4 sites
- Astarte distans3 sites
- Astarte rappahannockensis3 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta3 sites
- Chama congregata3 sites
- Crucibulum (Dispotaea) costata3 sites
- Discinisca lugubris3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Striarca centenaria, 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
5 references- The G.D Harris 1890 manuscript on the stratigraphy of Miocene and Pliocene beds at Yorktown, Virginia6
- Miocene invertebrate fauna of New Jersey3
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions2
- Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America2
- Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina. Part 1. Pelecypoda1
Each of the 14 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

Picture of Striarca centenaria
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Robert Parr Whitfield (†1910)
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Striarca centenaria 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 itStriarca through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Say 1824)