Apricardia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RequieniinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hippuritida
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.
78 occurrences of Apricardia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
78 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
12 formations
- Hummar Formation3
- Galatina Dolomite Formation2
- Montagut Formation1
- Balco del Cucut Formation1
- Melissano Limestone Formation1
- Auradu Formation1
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The named rock units Apricardia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 63 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Apricardia and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Apricardia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
197 taxa- Praeradiolites11 sites
- Biradiolites10 sites
- Hippurites8 sites
- Vaccinites7 sites
- Bournonia6 sites
- Hippuritella6 sites
- Lapeirousia6 sites
- Hippuritella lapeirousei5 sites
- Icthyosarcolites5 sites
- Anomia4 sites
- Cucullaea4 sites
- Durania4 sites
- Gyrostrea4 sites
- Hippurites cornucopiae4 sites
- Lyriochlamys4 sites
- Radiolitella4 sites
- Radiolites4 sites
- Sauvagesia4 sites
- Spondylus4 sites
- Agriopleura3 sites
- Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) pliciferum3 sites
- Biradiolites lameracensis3 sites
- Crassatella3 sites
- Dictyoptychus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Apricardia, 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
25 references- Late Maastrichtian Rudists and microfossils in the Karst Region (NE Italy and Slovenia)27
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages11
- Upper Cretaceous rudists distribution in the Mediterranean Tethys: comparison between platforms from Spain and South Central Italy7
- Cenomanian–Turonian rudist (bivalvia) lithosomes from NW of Jordan3
- Rudist fauna in the Maastrichtian deposits of southern Salento (southern Italy)3
- Coniacian-Maastrichtian of the Tremp Area (South Central Pyrenees)3
- Rudist facies distribution in the late Cretaceous of Cilento and western Basilicata (southern Italy)2
- Rudist Biostratigraphy in the Campanian-Maastrichtian of the south-central Pyrenees, Spain2
- Apricardia manuelae n. sp. in the lower Turonian of northeastern Matese (south Apennines), Italy2
- Rudist horizons in the Montsec (South Central Pyrenees)2
- Sedimentary events and rudist assemblages of Maiella Mountain (Central Italy): paleobiogeographic implications2
- Facies development and paleoenvironment of the Hajajah Limestone Member, Aruma Formation, central Saudi Arabia1
Each of the 78 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. 13 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 Apricardia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Apricardia was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRequieniinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Guéranger 1853