Transennella

Transennella

Diego Almendras · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
VeneridaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 116 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 116 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 116 occurrencesMiocene — about 27 of 116 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 32 of 116 occurrencesPleistocene — about 52 of 116 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 5 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 29 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 50 occurrences59.24 Mya11.7 ka63 Mya0 Mya

116 occurrences of Transennella 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

116 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

36 formations

Caloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WTamiami — 26.10°N, 80.84°WTamiami — 25.77°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 25.74°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 25.67°N, 80.31°WFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 26.80°N, 81.30°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WFort Thompson — 26.96°N, 81.17°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WAnastasia — 26.65°N, 80.45°WAnastasia — 26.93°N, 80.09°WAnastasia — 26.33°N, 80.13°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.05°S, 70.79°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.20°S, 70.88°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.13°S, 70.92°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.82°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 118.83°WVaqueros — 34.59°N, 120.23°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 71.00°WChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WZorritos — 3.67°S, 80.65°WZorritos — 3.80°S, 80.50°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WPampa del Palo Terrace — 17.58°S, 71.17°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.40°WIronshore — 19.33°N, 81.25°WShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°W

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The named rock units Transennella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Transennella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Transennella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,143 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Transennella, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

42 references

Each of the 116 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. 30 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 Transennella

Source
GBIF
Credit
Diego Almendras
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Transennella stimpsoni · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:283508

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. (Dall 1884)