Brevicardium
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LaevicardiinaePBDB
- 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 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.
29 occurrences of Brevicardium 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
29 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
8 formations
- Corsicana Marl Formation5
- Owl Creek Formation2
- Prairie Bluff Formation2
- Mount Laurel Sand Formation2
- Neylandville Marl Formation2
- Eagle Ford Formation1
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The named rock units Brevicardium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Brevicardium and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Brevicardium and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
468 taxa- Malletia21 sites
- Nuculana20 sites
- Crenella serica19 sites
- Cymbophora19 sites
- Syncyclonema19 sites
- Vetericardiella18 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata17 sites
- Granocardium17 sites
- Veniella conradi17 sites
- Anomia argentaria16 sites
- Crassatella vadosa16 sites
- Striarca16 sites
- Caestocorbula crassiplica15 sites
- Crenella elegantula15 sites
- Cyprimeria15 sites
- Linearis15 sites
- Liopistha protexta15 sites
- Nemodon15 sites
- Gryphaeostrea vomer14 sites
- Idonearca capax14 sites
- Camptonectes bubonis13 sites
- Legumen ellipticum13 sites
- Lima acutilineata13 sites
- Nemodon eufaulensis13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Brevicardium, 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
6 references- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages13
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain6
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain3
- Stratigraphy of the outcropping post-Magothy Upper Cretaceous formations in Southern New Jersey an Northern Delmarva peninsula, Delaware and Maryland3
- The larger invertebrate fossils of the Navarro group of Texas3
- Basal Eagle Ford fauna (Cenomanian) in Johnson and Tarrant Counties, Texas1
Each of the 29 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. 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 content0
No picture of Brevicardium was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Brevicardium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Brevicardium was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
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What may have been alongside itLaevicardiinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stephenson 1941)