Carditella

Carditella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CarditellinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Condylocardiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Condylocardiidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Condylocardiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 21 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 21 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 21 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 21 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.4–6.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences59.24 Mya11.7 ka63 Mya0 Mya

21 occurrences of Carditella on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

21 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

8 formations

Klasaman — 0.88°S, 131.25°EMint Spring — 32.36°N, 90.87°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°EEntre Rios — 33.72°S, 59.25°WLower Gelingseh — 1.50°N, 116.50°EGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.15°S, 70.93°W

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The named rock units Carditella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carditella and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Carditella and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

551 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Carditella, 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

12 references

Each of the 21 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. 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 Carditella

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itCarditellinae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith 1881