Venerupis

Venerupis is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae commonly known as carpet shells. The valves are robust and rhomboidal with the umbones turned-in and nearer the anterior end. The posterior end is wedge-shaped and the internal margins of the valves are smooth. There are 3 or 4 cardinal teeth on each valve. The foot is large and the siphons are of medium length and united except at the very tip.

Venerupis

Jan Johan ter Poorten; modified by Tom Meijer · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
VeneridaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 125 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 60 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 60 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 60 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 60 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 60 occurrencesMiocene — about 18 of 60 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 60 occurrencesPleistocene — about 22 of 60 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–126 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–9.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.0–4.5 Mya — about 14 occurrences4.5–0 Mya — about 35 occurrences125.77 Mya11.7 ka135 Mya0 Mya

60 occurrences of Venerupis 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

60 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

16 formations

Tamala Limestone — 32.04°S, 115.76°EPalembang — 2.92°S, 104.75°EKoronia — 35.08°N, 33.17°EKoronia — 35.03°N, 33.15°EKamicharo — 43.08°N, 143.83°EKamicharo — 42.95°N, 144.07°EMamara — 39.39°N, 26.84°EToshima Sand — 34.62°N, 137.22°EBoca de Serpiente — 10.08°N, 62.01°WOosterhout — 51.70°N, 5.73°ESkalica — 48.48°N, 16.65°EBredasdorp — 33.88°S, 18.45°EKrasnooktyabr’sk — 44.59°N, 40.05°ETsurikake — 42.20°N, 139.53°EMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°EEtchegoin — 35.90°N, 120.00°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.98°W

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The named rock units Venerupis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Venerupis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Venerupis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,116 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Venerupis, 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

31 references

Each of the 60 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. 19 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 Venerupis

Credit
Jan Johan ter Poorten; modified by Tom Meijer
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itVeneridae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1818