Cardites crassicostata

Cynthia Tercero · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- CarditesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cardites
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Cardites
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardites
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At least 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
5 occurrences of Cardites crassicostata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
5 occurrences- Pliocene40%
- Pleistocene60%
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
- Esmeraldas Formation1
- Onzole Formation · Daule Group1
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The named rock units Cardites crassicostata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cardites crassicostata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Cardites crassicostata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
118 taxa- Crucibulum spinosum2 sites
- Turritella2 sites
- Acar domingensis1 site
- Acesta1 site
- Admete (Marksella) jumala1 site
- Agaronia testacea1 site
- Anachis (Alia)1 site
- Anachis (Anachis)1 site
- Anadara (Sectiarca) henekeni1 site
- Anadara formosa1 site
- Ancistrosyrinx cedonulli reevi1 site
- Anomia peruviana1 site
- Antillophos1 site
- Antillophos elegans1 site
- Arca (Arca) suspecta1 site
- Arcinella arcinella cf. arcinella1 site
- Boreotrophon1 site
- Borsonella1 site
- Buridrillia1 site
- Bursa rugosa1 site
- Calyptraea1 site
- Cancellaria (Cancellaria) esmeralda1 site
- Cancellaria (Cancellaria) penita1 site
- Cancellaria cerithea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cardites crassicostata, 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
5 references- Taphonomic and paleoecological analyses (mollusks and fishes) of the Súa Member condensed shelled, upper Onzole Formation (Early Pliocene, Ecuador)1
- Olsson, 19641
- Results of the Puritan-American Museum of Natural History expedition to western Mexico. Part 7: Corals and coral reefs in the Gulf of California1
- A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador1
- Catalogue of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California1
Each of the 5 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 Cardites crassicostata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Cynthia Tercero
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1825)