Cardium (Laevicardium) alaskensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LaevicardiumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Laevicardium
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Laevicardium
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Laevicardium
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Cardium (Laevicardium) alaskensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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- Oligocene100%
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 Cardium (Laevicardium) alaskensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cardium (Laevicardium) alaskensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Cardium (Laevicardium) alaskensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Panomya norvegica4 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) galianoi4 sites
- Cancellaria (Progabbi) alaskensis2 sites
- Ciliatocardium brooksi2 sites
- Lucinoma columbiana2 sites
- Pandora (Kennerlia) yakatagensis2 sites
- Pecten (Patinopecten) yakatagensis2 sites
- Turritella hamiltonensis2 sites
- Turritella porterensis2 sites
- Colus rearensis1 site
- Conchocele bisecta1 site
- Fusinus1 site
- Liracassis apta1 site
- Macrocallista rearensis1 site
- Mya (Mya) salmonensis1 site
- Mya (Mya) truncata1 site
- Nuculana (Nuculana) fossa1 site
- Panomya1 site
- Polinices (Euspira) ramonensis1 site
- Scaphander alaskensis1 site
- Securella securis1 site
- Tellina1 site
- Turritella1 site
- Venericardia hamiltonensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cardium (Laevicardium) alaskensis, 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
1 referenceEach 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cardium (Laevicardium) alaskensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cardium (Laevicardium) alaskensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cardium (Laevicardium) alaskensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itLaevicardium through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clark 1932