Tridacna (Tridacna) gigas

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Tridacna (Tridacna)PBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Tridacninae
Life habit
epifaunal, solitaryPBDB, for Tridacninae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tridacninae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Tridacna
Environment
marinePBDB, for Tridacninae

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 13 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Tridacna (Tridacna) gigas 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

13 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

4 formations

Aldabra Limestone — 9.42°S, 46.45°ELower Gelingseh — 1.50°N, 116.50°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ETakamaka Limestone — 9.42°S, 46.45°E

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The named rock units Tridacna (Tridacna) gigas has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tridacna (Tridacna) gigas and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Tridacna (Tridacna) gigas and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

159 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tridacna (Tridacna) gigas, 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

6 references

Each of the 13 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
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No picture of Tridacna (Tridacna) gigas was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tridacna (Tridacna) gigas, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

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What may have been alongside itTridacna (Tridacna) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)