Callocardia (Agriopoma) catharia

Callocardia cathariium (Dall, 1902), a relative of Callocardia (Agriopoma) catharia — not Callocardia (Agriopoma) catharia itself

Not Callocardia (Agriopoma) catharia. This is Callocardia cathariium (Dall, 1902), a relative — both are Veneridae.

United States Fish Commission · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
Callocardia (Agriopoma)PBDB
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 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 774 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 3 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48.07 Mya2.58 Mya57 Mya0 Mya

3 occurrences of Callocardia (Agriopoma) catharia on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

3 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

2 formations

Nanjemoy — 38.72°N, 76.93°WNanjemoy — 37.77°N, 77.37°WArmuelles — 8.03°N, 82.92°W

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The named rock units Callocardia (Agriopoma) catharia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Callocardia (Agriopoma) catharia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Callocardia (Agriopoma) catharia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

107 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Callocardia (Agriopoma) catharia, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Callocardia cathariium (Dall, 1902)

Source
GBIF
Credit
United States Fish Commission
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Callocardia (Agriopoma) catharia 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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What may have been alongside itCallocardia (Agriopoma) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dall 1902