Cardita beaumonti
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CarditaPBDB
- 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 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
4 occurrences of Cardita beaumonti 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Cardita beaumonti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cardita beaumonti and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cardita beaumonti and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Plicatula locardi3 sites
- Acteonella2 sites
- Aphrodina (Mesocallista) quenseli2 sites
- Bizarrus incertus2 sites
- Granocardium kruschi2 sites
- Gymnarus fraasi2 sites
- Gyrodes (Gyrodes) tenellus2 sites
- Plicatula decipiens2 sites
- Pseudocucullaea lens2 sites
- Strepsidura gracilis2 sites
- Trigonarca angolensis2 sites
- Trigonarca camerunensis2 sites
- Turritella alternans2 sites
- Turritella arduissima2 sites
- Turritella nodosa2 sites
- Veniella undata2 sites
- Volutilithes guillemaini2 sites
- Volutomorpha similis2 sites
- Agelasina plenodonta1 site
- Ampullospira bulbiformis1 site
- Anofia1 site
- Aporrhais1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Barroisiceras (Barroisiceras) haberfellneri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cardita beaumonti, 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- Die Oberkreide vom Mungofluß in Kamerun und ihre Fauna3
- Nouvelles données sur les Mollusques et autres macro-organismes campaniens de Sikoum (Centre-Est du sous bassin de Douala-Cameroun): intérêts bio-chronologiques et paléo-écologiques1
Each of the 4 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 Cardita beaumonti
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Cardita beaumonti 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCardita through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Archiac and Haime 1854)