Tagelus (Tagelus) californianus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- California jackknife clamPBDB
- Sits inside
- Tagelus (Tagelus)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tagelus
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Tagelus
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tagelus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
32 occurrences of Tagelus (Tagelus) californianus 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
32 occurrences- Pliocene3%
- Pleistocene97%
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
5 formations
- Palos Verdes Sand Formation16
- Mulege Formation2
- Palos Verdes Formation2
- Anchor Formation1
- Medill Formation1
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The named rock units Tagelus (Tagelus) californianus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tagelus (Tagelus) californianus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Tagelus (Tagelus) californianus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
913 taxa- Leptopecten latiauratus23 sites
- Cryptomya californica20 sites
- Lucinisca nuttalli20 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana19 sites
- Macoma nasuta19 sites
- Ostrea lurida19 sites
- Caesia perpinguis18 sites
- Callianax biplicata18 sites
- Cerithideopsis californica18 sites
- Dentalium neohexagonum18 sites
- Argopecten ventricosus17 sites
- Donax (Donax) gouldii17 sites
- Rexithaerus secta17 sites
- Californiconus californicus16 sites
- Crucibulum spinosum16 sites
- Leukoma staminea16 sites
- Tivela (Pachydesma) stultorum16 sites
- Acteocina culcitella15 sites
- Anomia peruviana15 sites
- Caesia fossatus15 sites
- Mexicardia procera15 sites
- Calliostoma canaliculatum14 sites
- Chione californiensis14 sites
- Hirtoscala hindsii14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Tagelus (Tagelus) californianus, 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
14 references- The paleontology of the Pleistocene molluscan fauna of the Newport Bay area, California8
- The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California4
- Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California3
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of some marine Pleistocene deposits in northwest Los Angeles Basin, California3
- Notes on the marine Pleistocene deposits of San Diego County, California3
- Upper Pleistocene Rocky Shores and Intertidal Biotas at Playa La Palmita (Baja California Sur,Mexico)2
- Marine Pleistocene Invertebrates from near Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico2
- Paleoecologic analysis and age of a late Pleistocene fossil assemblage from Upper Newport Bay, Newport Beach, Orange County, California1
- Pleistocene mollusks from Tecolote Creek, San Diego, California1
- The paleontology and stratigraphy of the Pleistocene at Signal hill, Long Beach, California1
- An Upper Pleistocene fauna from the Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles County, California1
- Paleontology of Coyote Mountain, Imperial County, California1
Each of the 32 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. 2 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.
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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 (Tagelus) californianus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tagelus (Tagelus) californianus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1837)