Tapes

Tapes is a genus of bivalves belonging to the subfamily Tapetinae of the family Veneridae.

Tapes

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 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
TapetiniPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 241 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 111 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 111 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 111 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 111 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 111 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 111 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 111 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 111 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 111 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 111 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 111 occurrencesMiocene — about 41 of 111 occurrencesPliocene — about 24 of 111 occurrencesPleistocene — about 32 of 111 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences244–235 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences235–227 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences101–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–50 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 30 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 64 occurrences241.464 Mya11.7 ka252 Mya0 Mya

111 occurrences of Tapes 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

111 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

34 formations

Koronia — 35.08°N, 33.17°EKoronia — 35.03°N, 33.12°EKonka — 36.00°N, 51.18°EKonka — 36.45°N, 52.25°ERed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ETalar — 25.33°N, 62.00°ETalar — 25.33°N, 65.50°ETogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EVindobonian Marl — 36.00°N, 51.18°EChatti Mudstone — 25.25°N, 62.25°EDampier Limestone — 25.53°S, 113.48°EFukui — 33.16°N, 129.72°ECilanang — 7.01°S, 107.33°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ENyalindung — 7.49°S, 110.00°ENyalindung — 7.48°S, 108.42°EKaranga — 36.00°N, 51.18°EKaranga — 36.63°N, 52.20°EMammaliferous Crag — 52.58°N, 1.38°WCoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°EColeraine — 47.32°N, 93.28°WSakuragicho — 35.45°N, 139.64°EFinikia — 35.30°N, 25.27°ETomioka — 42.77°N, 143.02°ETamala Limestone — 32.00°S, 115.75°ETartaro — 15.15°N, 121.01°ENishikurosawa — 39.70°N, 140.12°EKaskadnaya — 54.16°N, 142.56°EMaéjima — 34.60°N, 134.17°EFuranui — 42.52°N, 142.23°E

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The named rock units Tapes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 50 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tapes and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tapes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,795 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Tapes, 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

53 references

Each of the 111 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. 41 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 content2

Picture of Tapes

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Tapes literatus · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:293275

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 itTapetini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mühlfeld 1811