Cardiomya

Cardiomya

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CuspidariidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 119 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 119 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 25 of 119 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 16 of 119 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 27 of 119 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 26 of 119 occurrencesPleistocene — about 16 of 119 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 5 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 6 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 6 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 5 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 6 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 10 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 9 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 22 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 23 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

119 occurrences of Cardiomya on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

119 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

60 formations

Cercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.17°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.47°N, 71.17°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.30°WMartinez — 38.02°N, 122.11°WMartinez — 38.00°N, 122.20°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WTogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°ETimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WAmaninskaya — 58.00°N, 158.20°EUtkholokskaya — 57.53°N, 157.17°ECaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.07°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.06°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°ELomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WKeasey — 45.75°N, 123.25°WBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WMidway — 25.70°N, 99.23°WJama — 0.18°S, 80.32°WCaimito — 9.15°N, 79.86°WGakkhinskaya — 58.25°N, 158.75°EKamchikskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°E

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The named rock units Cardiomya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cardiomya and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cardiomya and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,543 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Cardiomya, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

49 references

Each of the 119 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. 37 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 content2

Picture of Cardiomya

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Cardiomya striata · usnm:invertebrate zoology:460732

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. (Adams 1864)