Cardium costatum

Udo Schmidt · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
- CardiumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cardiidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Cardiidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 118 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cardium costatum 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Cardium costatum and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Cardium costatum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Ancilla (Sparella) cinnamomea1 site
- Arca imbricata arabica1 site
- Arca radiata1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) lacerata1 site
- Cerithidea1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Chama1 site
- Circe corrugata1 site
- Clementia (Clementia) papyracea1 site
- Codakia tigerina1 site
- Conus1 site
- Conus (Leptoconus) amadis1 site
- Conus arenatus1 site
- Conus generalis1 site
- Conus textile1 site
- Diplodonta globosa1 site
- Divaricella ornata1 site
- Erosaria eburnea1 site
- Erosaria turdus1 site
- Macrocallista1 site
- Mesodesma1 site
- Natica1 site
- Nerita (Theliostyla) albicilla1 site
- Nerita undata striata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cardium costatum, 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 1 occurrence 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 content2

Picture of Cardium costatum
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Udo Schmidt
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- latedcapuerj
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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 itCardium through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758