Tagelus

Tagelus is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs belonging to the family Solecurtidae.

Tagelus

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
SolecurtidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 193 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 193 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 193 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 10 of 193 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 36 of 193 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 20 of 193 occurrencesPleistocene — about 107 of 193 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 9 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 6 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 20 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 122 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

193 occurrences of Tagelus 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

193 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

58 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WPamlico — 38.55°N, 75.08°WPamlico — 35.70°N, 75.74°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.64°N, 80.01°WPamlico — 32.83°N, 79.94°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.05°S, 70.79°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.20°S, 70.88°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.13°S, 70.92°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.51°S, 70.84°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.70°S, 70.97°WCastilletes — 11.96°N, 71.26°WCastilletes — 11.94°N, 71.32°WCastilletes — 11.85°N, 71.36°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 33.86°N, 78.55°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WVaqueros — 33.54°N, 117.78°WVaqueros — 33.68°N, 117.76°WVaqueros — 33.65°N, 117.81°WJimol — 12.00°N, 71.31°WJimol — 11.90°N, 71.39°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WJama — 0.18°S, 80.32°WRincon — 34.74°N, 120.31°WSaxicava Clay — 49.58°N, 57.93°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WPacific Muck — 8.89°N, 79.66°WPacific Muck — 8.93°N, 79.56°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WBohio — 9.17°N, 79.85°WMancora — 5.20°S, 80.63°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCalvert — 38.64°N, 76.52°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WTalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WArmuelles — 8.03°N, 82.92°W

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The named rock units Tagelus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 56 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tagelus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Tagelus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,524 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 113 sites for Tagelus, 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

73 references

Each of the 193 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. 61 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 Tagelus

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tagelus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSolecurtidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1847