Americardia

Americardia

Ter Poorten J.J. · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
FraginaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 6 of 79 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 79 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 14 of 79 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 26 of 79 occurrencesPleistocene — about 27 of 79 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 12 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 17 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 25 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

79 occurrences of Americardia 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

79 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

29 formations

Chipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.37°N, 70.76°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.17°WGurabo — 19.35°N, 70.72°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°WIronshore — 19.33°N, 81.25°WAgueguexquite — 18.09°N, 94.34°WAgueguexquite — 18.14°N, 94.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 31.98°N, 89.42°WAvon Park — 29.25°N, 82.73°WInglis Limestone — 29.23°N, 82.70°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WBelmont — 32.33°N, 64.69°WBelmont — 32.36°N, 64.71°WMao — 19.67°N, 71.40°WForest Hill — 30.98°N, 88.73°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 71.00°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WAngostura — 1.09°N, 78.99°WChagres Sandstone — 9.33°N, 80.00°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WAvon Park Limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°WBoca Chica — 10.62°N, 64.00°W

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The named rock units Americardia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Americardia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Americardia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,636 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Americardia, 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

28 references

Each of the 79 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. 16 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 Americardia

Credit
Ter Poorten J.J.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Americardia 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.

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. (Stewart 1930)