Tagelus dombeii

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TagelusPBDB
- 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 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
18 occurrences of Tagelus dombeii 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
18 occurrences- Pliocene14%
- Pleistocene64%
- Holocene22%
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
- Estratos de Caldera Formation7
- Formación Coquimbo Formation2
- Pampa del Palo terrace Formation1
- San Juan Terrace Formation1
- Morro Mejillones Formation1
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The named rock units Tagelus dombeii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tagelus dombeii and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Tagelus dombeii and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Concholepas concholepas8 sites
- Choromytilus chorus7 sites
- Incatella cingulata7 sites
- Ameghinomya antiqua6 sites
- Mulinia edulis6 sites
- Oliva peruviana6 sites
- Crepipatella dilatata5 sites
- Semele (Semele) solida5 sites
- Crassilabrum crassilabrum4 sites
- Crucibulum4 sites
- Glycymeris4 sites
- Leukoma thaca4 sites
- Mesodesma (Mesodesma) donacium4 sites
- Nassarius gayi4 sites
- Priene scabrum4 sites
- Tegula tridentata4 sites
- Transennella4 sites
- Xanthochorus cassidiformis4 sites
- Argopecten purpuratus3 sites
- Chlorostoma euryomphalum3 sites
- Chlorostoma luctuosum3 sites
- Diplodonta inconspicua3 sites
- Mexicardia procera3 sites
- Retrotapes lenticularis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Tagelus dombeii, 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
9 references- Carta Caldera, Región de Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica, No. 76, 38 p. 1 mapa escala 1:100.0005
- Thermally-anomalous Holocene molluscan assemblages from coastal Peru: evidence for paleogeographic, not climatic change4
- Geología del Área de Adacollo-Puerto Aldea, Región de Coquimbo, Carta No. 962
- Cartas Castilla y Totoral Bajo, Región de Atacama. 1 mapa escala 1:100.0002
- A new Pliocene mollusk fauna from Mejillones, northern Chile1
- A Late Pleistocene macrobenthic assemblage in Caleta Patillos, northern Chile: paleoecological and paleobiogeographical interpretations1
- Pampa del Palo: an anomalous composite marine terrace on the uprising coast of southern Peru1
- Occurrence de Chione broggi (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1943) (Pelecypoda) en depositos litorales cuaternarios del sur del Peru: implicaciones paleoceanograficas1
- Pliocene fossils from Baltra (South Seymour) Island, Galápagos Islands1
Each of the 18 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 Tagelus dombeii
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Tagelus dombeii 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 PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1818)