Tucetona

Tucetona is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Glycymerididae, the bittersweet clams. Unlike other genera in the family, Tucetona species have a ribbed shell.

Tucetona

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GlycymerididaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Glycymerididae

Time the record covers

At least 85 million years on record.

The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 322 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 322 occurrencesEocene — about 37 of 322 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 322 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 152 of 322 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 70 of 322 occurrencesPleistocene — about 52 of 322 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 4 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 7 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 9 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 6 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 17 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 25 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 31 occurrences12–9.2 Mya — about 36 occurrences9.2–6.1 Mya — about 33 occurrences6.1–3.1 Mya — about 59 occurrences3.1–0 Mya — about 69 occurrences85.7 Mya129 ka92 Mya0 Mya

322 occurrences of Tucetona on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

322 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

91 formations

Castilletes — 11.92°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.96°N, 71.26°WCastilletes — 11.92°N, 71.36°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.30°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WJimol — 11.98°N, 71.31°WJimol — 11.95°N, 71.36°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.92°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WCaloosahatchee — 25.91°N, 81.36°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.85°S, 138.60°EDry Creek Sands — 34.88°S, 138.49°EDry Creek Sands — 34.89°S, 138.56°EDry Creek Sands — 34.95°S, 138.57°EDry Creek Sands — 34.97°S, 138.54°ETubará — 10.75°N, 74.98°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WCook Mountain — 31.26°N, 93.82°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.96°N, 82.37°WArcadia — 30.48°N, 84.02°WArcadia — 30.21°N, 84.30°WArcadia — 30.49°N, 85.17°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WWaccamaw — 34.21°N, 81.31°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WUrumaco — 11.22°N, 70.25°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.93°WCulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WPoivre — 20.67°S, 115.42°EPoivre — 20.75°S, 115.33°EPoivre — 20.85°S, 115.50°EPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 32.64°N, 80.01°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°W

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The named rock units Tucetona has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 67 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tucetona and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tucetona and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,821 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 148 sites for Tucetona, 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

79 references

Each of the 322 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. 67 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 Tucetona

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tucetona 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 itGlycymerididae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Iredale 1939)