Timoclea grus
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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 least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 0 Mya.
31 occurrences of Timoclea grus 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
31 occurrences- Miocene3%
- Pliocene19%
- Pleistocene71%
- Holocene6%
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
11 formations
- Waccamaw Formation7
- Caloosahatchee Formation6
- Bermont Formation3
- Duplin Formation2
- Fort Thompson Formation2
- Pamlico Formation2
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The named rock units Timoclea grus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Timoclea grus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Timoclea grus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
1,238 taxa- Crassinella lunulata19 sites
- Parvilucina multistriata19 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima17 sites
- Plicatula gibbosa17 sites
- Chione cancellata15 sites
- Pleuromeris tridentata15 sites
- Abra aequalis14 sites
- Anomia simplex13 sites
- Diodora cayenensis13 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans13 sites
- Mulinia lateralis13 sites
- Olivella mutica13 sites
- Arcopsis adamsi12 sites
- Glycymeris americana12 sites
- Mercenaria campechiensis12 sites
- Nuculana acuta12 sites
- Oliva (Ispidula) sayana12 sites
- Rangia (Rangia) cuneata12 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) lienosa11 sites
- Astyris lunata11 sites
- Crassinella11 sites
- Crepidula plana11 sites
- Dinocardium robustum11 sites
- Neverita duplicatus11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Timoclea grus, 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
17 references- Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina. Part 1. Pelecypoda6
- Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Charlotte Harbor Area in Southwestern Florida4
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions3
- The Pleistocene molluscan fauna from Leisley Shell Pit 1, Hillsborough County, Florida3
- Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America2
- Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Late Neogene strata of the Caloosahatchee River area of southern Florida2
- Mollusca: Fort Thompson Formation (Late Pleistocene)1
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary sediments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana1
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary seduments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana1
- Mollusca of the "Glades" unit in southern Florida: Part I Introduction and observations1
- Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida1
Each of the 31 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. 5 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 Timoclea grus
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC BY-NC
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Timoclea grus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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. (Holmes 1858)