Acanthocardia

Acanthocardia is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Cardiidae. They are infaunal suspension feeders.

Acanthocardia

Georges Jansoone ( JoJan ) · CC BY 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
CardiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cardiidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Cardiidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 171 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 28 of 171 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 32 of 171 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 17 of 171 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 61 of 171 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 21 of 171 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 171 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 12 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 15 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 4 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 5 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 8 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 7 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 7 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 9 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 10 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 12 occurrences12–9.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences9.2–6.1 Mya — about 13 occurrences6.1–3.1 Mya — about 21 occurrences3.1–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences83.6 Mya11.7 ka92 Mya0 Mya

171 occurrences of Acanthocardia 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

171 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

58 formations

Pendleton Ferry — 31.35°N, 93.57°WPendleton Ferry — 31.57°N, 93.48°WPendleton Ferry — 31.47°N, 93.57°WPendleton Ferry — 31.69°N, 93.30°WPendleton Ferry — 31.72°N, 93.22°WPendleton Ferry — 31.74°N, 93.40°WBerada — 51.10°N, 5.80°EMarthaville — 31.74°N, 93.40°WMarthaville — 31.72°N, 93.51°WMarthaville — 31.76°N, 93.09°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.51°N, 71.19°WNanafalia — 31.82°N, 86.62°WNanafalia — 32.25°N, 87.77°WNanafalia — 31.58°N, 85.77°WNanafalia — 31.61°N, 85.05°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WRed Bluff — 31.84°N, 88.75°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 31.98°N, 89.42°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WInglis Limestone — 29.23°N, 82.70°WInglis Limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°WPinczow — 50.47°N, 20.80°EPinczow — 50.53°N, 20.53°EQasr El-Sagha — 29.30°N, 30.17°EVaqueros — 34.37°N, 119.33°WVaqueros — 35.31°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 35.24°N, 120.09°WBateque — 26.75°N, 113.00°WBateque — 26.25°N, 112.50°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WMandul Marl — 3.75°N, 117.65°ESantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.26°WSantee Limestone — 33.20°N, 80.01°WPielach — 48.18°N, 15.25°EPielach — 48.22°N, 15.36°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WBurgeschleinitz — 48.63°N, 15.78°EFels — 48.51°N, 15.77°ESeguin — 30.88°N, 96.75°WSeguin — 30.33°N, 97.37°WRed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ESantiago — 33.76°N, 117.77°W

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The named rock units Acanthocardia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acanthocardia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Acanthocardia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,398 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 107 sites for Acanthocardia, 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

73 references

Each of the 171 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. 61 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 content3

Picture of Acanthocardia

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Georges Jansoone ( JoJan )
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CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
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CT scan

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Acanthocardia aculeata · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:8411

3D model

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Sketchfab
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The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. (Gray 1851)