Cardita

Cardita is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Carditidae.

Cardita

Philippe Bourjon · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
CarditidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Carditidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Carditidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Carditidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 246 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 397 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 397 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 397 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 42 of 397 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 397 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 397 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 6 of 397 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 28 of 397 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 18 of 397 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 8 of 397 occurrencesEocene — about 65 of 397 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 18 of 397 occurrencesMiocene — about 96 of 397 occurrencesPliocene — about 46 of 397 occurrencesPleistocene — about 65 of 397 occurrences254–245 Mya — about 1 occurrence245–237 Mya — about 2 occurrences237–228 Mya — about 19 occurrences228–220 Mya — about 6 occurrences220–211 Mya — about 5 occurrences211–203 Mya — about 9 occurrences203–194 Mya — about 3 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–152 Mya — about 3 occurrences152–144 Mya — about 3 occurrences144–135 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences135–127 Mya — about 2 occurrences127–118 Mya — about 5 occurrences118–110 Mya — about 7 occurrences110–101 Mya — about 12 occurrences101–93 Mya — about 11 occurrences93–85 Mya — about 5 occurrences85–76 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences76–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–59 Mya — about 4 occurrences59–51 Mya — about 7 occurrences51–42 Mya — about 34 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 29 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 13 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 23 occurrences17–8.5 Mya — about 55 occurrences8.5–0 Mya — about 136 occurrences247 Mya11.7 ka254 Mya0 Mya

397 occurrences of Cardita 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

397 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

120 formations

Red Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°ERed Crag — 52.03°N, 1.32°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°EAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.35°ECoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°ECoralline Crag — 52.12°N, 1.55°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.59°N, 12.26°EPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 2.58°S, 43.38°WTogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EBanc à verrins — 48.85°N, 1.94°EKiowa — 37.32°N, 99.75°WKiowa — 37.44°N, 99.08°WKiowa — 38.54°N, 98.01°WKoronia — 35.08°N, 33.17°EKoronia — 35.03°N, 33.15°EKoronia — 35.05°N, 33.10°EKoronia — 35.05°N, 33.05°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.37°S, 111.32°EDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.85°S, 138.60°EDry Creek Sands — 34.89°S, 138.56°ENyalindung — 7.00°S, 106.63°EQimugen — 41.00°N, 84.00°EKhatiyah — 25.90°N, 56.07°EMishrif — 25.90°N, 56.07°EAlcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°W"Cardita Series" — 29.08°N, 33.07°EDomanda — 29.93°N, 70.12°EDomanda — 30.03°N, 70.15°EDomanda — 29.97°N, 70.12°EGavdos — 34.83°N, 24.08°EApostoli — 35.25°N, 24.58°EChoptank — 38.62°N, 76.12°WChoptank — 38.52°N, 76.51°WTamiami — 26.01°N, 81.13°WTamiami — 25.67°N, 80.31°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WToshima Sand — 34.62°N, 137.22°EFalun de Sainte-Avit — 43.91°N, 0.66°W

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The named rock units Cardita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 96 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 156 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cardita and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cardita and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

4,546 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 254 sites for Cardita, and this reads 240 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

177 references

Each of the 397 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. 165 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 Cardita

Credit
Philippe Bourjon
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCarditidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bruguière 1792