Cardium hians
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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 least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
7 occurrences of Cardium hians on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
7 occurrences- Miocene57%
- Pliocene14%
- Pleistocene29%
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 hians and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cardium hians and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
190 taxa- Chlamys5 sites
- Anomia ephippium4 sites
- Chlamys (Chlamys) varia3 sites
- Clausinella3 sites
- Cubitostrea digitalina3 sites
- Glossus (Glossus)3 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) nucleus3 sites
- Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii3 sites
- Talochlamys multistriata3 sites
- Varicorbula gibba3 sites
- Acanthocardia2 sites
- Acanthocardia paucicostata2 sites
- Aequipecten opercularis2 sites
- Callista (Callista) chione2 sites
- Cristatopecten cristatum2 sites
- Diodora (Diodora) italica2 sites
- Echinolampas hoffmanni2 sites
- Glans (Glans) intermedia2 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymeris)2 sites
- Laevicardium2 sites
- Lucina columbella2 sites
- Megaxinus2 sites
- Modiolus2 sites
- Ostrea edulis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Cardium hians, 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
6 references- Macrofauna del Pleistocene inferiore di Cinisi (Sicilia)2
- The bivalvia (Mollusca) from the Upper Miocene of the Sais Basin (Southern Rifian Corridor, Morocco). Palaeobiogeography and paleoecology1
- Bivalve Molluscs from the Badenian of Northwestern Bulgaria1
- Lithofazielle Entwicklung und Molluskenfauna des oberen Badeniens (Miozän M4d) in dem Gebiet Bratislava-Devinska Nova Ves [Lithofacies and mollusc fauna of the Upper Badenian in the Bratislava-Devinska Nova Ves area]1
- Etude paléontologique de Pecten subbenedictus Font. et ses variations dans le Burdigalien de Manosque (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)1
- Su alcuni Moluschi pliocenici della Val d'Era (Toscana) e su alcune anomalie di sviluppo [Pliocene molluscs from the Era Valley (Toscana)]1
Each of the 7 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Cardium hians
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
MorphoSource 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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What may have been alongside itCardium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spengler 1799