Carditamera arata

Carditamera arata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CarditameraPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Carditamera
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Carditamera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Carditamera
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 45 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 45 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 45 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 21 of 45 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.7–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 9 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 8 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

45 occurrences of Carditamera arata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

45 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

14 formations

Caloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WYorktown — 35.51°N, 77.62°WYorktown — 37.27°N, 76.57°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 35.15°N, 77.14°WKirkwood — 39.46°N, 75.30°WKirkwood — 38.99°N, 74.82°WKirkwood — 39.36°N, 74.42°WKirkwood — 39.43°N, 75.23°WKirkwood — 39.47°N, 75.35°WKirkwood — 39.00°N, 75.12°WWaccamaw — 34.21°N, 81.31°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 33.97°N, 78.39°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 33.86°N, 78.55°WJackson Bluff — 30.97°N, 84.53°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WTamiami — 26.37°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 25.67°N, 80.31°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WBear Bluff — 34.29°N, 78.51°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WRaysor Marl — 33.10°N, 80.67°W

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The named rock units Carditamera arata 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.

Carditamera arata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Carditamera arata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

896 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Carditamera arata, 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

16 references

Each of the 45 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. 4 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 content1

Picture of Carditamera arata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Carditamera arata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1832)