Tagelus (Mesopleura)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TagelusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 27 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 12 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 27 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 27 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.2–8.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.1–6.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.9–5.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.5–2.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences27.3 Mya11.7 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

27 occurrences of Tagelus (Mesopleura) on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

16 formations

Chipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCollazo Shale — 18.34°N, 66.99°WCastillo — 10.37°N, 70.05°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.06°WBoca Chica — 10.62°N, 64.00°WCumana — 10.47°N, 64.15°WTuira — 8.22°N, 77.58°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WPico — 34.38°N, 118.61°W

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The named rock units Tagelus (Mesopleura) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tagelus (Mesopleura) and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tagelus (Mesopleura) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,645 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Tagelus (Mesopleura), 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

15 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. 3 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 content0

No picture of Tagelus (Mesopleura) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Tagelus (Mesopleura), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tagelus (Mesopleura) 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 itTagelus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.