Callocardia salvia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CallocardiaPBDB
- 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 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
2 occurrences of Callocardia salvia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Salina Formation · Salina Group1
- Saman Formation1
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The named rock units Callocardia salvia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Callocardia salvia and its relatives
EoceneWhere Callocardia salvia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Aturia ziczac1 site
- Aturoidea olssoni1 site
- Caryocorbula salina1 site
- Clementia (Egesta) peruviana1 site
- Cypraeorbis boggsi1 site
- Diplodonta dissona1 site
- Doliocassis samanica1 site
- Donax (Latona) capparis1 site
- Ectinochilus gaudichaudi alauda1 site
- Epitonium (Acrilla) peruvianum1 site
- Ficopsis otaria1 site
- Juliacorbula boggsi1 site
- Lamelliconcha hillii1 site
- Lyria sabulosa1 site
- Nassarius salina1 site
- Natica (Natica) peruviana1 site
- Polinices (Polinices) woodsi1 site
- Popenoeum mutabilis woodsi1 site
- Pseudoliva modesta1 site
- Sphaerocypraea negritensis1 site
- Tritiaria terebratula1 site
- Turritella hopkinsi1 site
- Venericardia (Venericor) pacifica1 site
- Venericardia (Venericor) peruviana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Callocardia salvia, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 salvia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Callocardia salvia 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 through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Olsson 1928