Tawera

Tawera is a genus of marine bivalves in the family Veneridae.

Tawera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VenerinaePBDB
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 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 28 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 28 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 28 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 28 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.8–8.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.4–7.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.0–5.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.6–4.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.2–2.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.8–1.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences37.71 Mya11.7 ka41.9 Mya0 Mya

28 occurrences of Tawera on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

28 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

12 formations

Otahuhu — 37.21°S, 174.90°EOtahuhu — 36.95°S, 174.80°EAscot — 32.08°S, 115.92°EDry Creek Sands — 34.85°S, 138.60°EDry Creek Sands — 34.91°S, 138.56°ETogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°ETims Thicket/Kooallup Limestone — 32.65°S, 115.63°EWaihao — 44.20°S, 171.05°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°EJan Juc — 38.32°S, 144.32°EFyansford — 38.23°S, 145.02°EMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°EWaiomio — 40.03°S, 175.48°EPakaurangi — 36.02°S, 173.99°E

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The named rock units Tawera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tawera and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Tawera and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

331 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Tawera, 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

Each of the 28 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.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Tawera

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

No 3D scan of Tawera 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 itVenerinae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marwick 1927