Timoclea costellifera

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
- TimocleaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Timoclea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Timoclea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Timoclea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Timoclea costellifera on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Timoclea costellifera 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.
Timoclea costellifera and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Timoclea costellifera and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Anadara jacksoni1 site
- Anomia achaeus1 site
- Barbatia foliata1 site
- Canarium mutabile1 site
- Chama limbula1 site
- Chlamys (Mimachlamys)1 site
- Circe (Circe) scripta1 site
- Decatopecten amiculum1 site
- Dendostrea folium1 site
- Diplodonta subrotundata1 site
- Fragum nivale1 site
- Gafrarium pectinatum1 site
- Gari maculosa1 site
- Glossaulax didyma1 site
- Hyotissa virleti1 site
- Lutraria australis1 site
- Naticarius alapapilionis1 site
- Nicaisolopha tridacnaeformis1 site
- Ovatipsa chinensis1 site
- Pitar (Pitarina)1 site
- Pleuroploca trapezium1 site
- Saccostrea cuccullata1 site
- Spiniplicatula muricata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Timoclea costellifera, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- The Cainozoic palaeontology and stratigraphy of KwaZulu-Natal. Part 5. The False Bay Coral Limestone Formation. Stratigraphy and fauna1
- Revised list of South African late Tertiary and Pleistocene marine Mollusca1
Each of the 2 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 Timoclea costellifera
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- H. Zell
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Timoclea costellifera 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTimoclea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Adams and Reeve 1850)