Coanicardita ventricosa

Coanicardita ventricosa

Matt Lemay, Heather Earle, Karen Cram, Suzie Christoffel · CC BY 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
Also called
stout cyclocardiaPBDB
Sits inside
CoanicarditaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Carditidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Carditidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Carditidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesPliocene — about 8 of 47 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 39 of 47 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 47 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.9–2.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.7–2.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 8 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 9 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 9 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.58 Mya129 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

47 occurrences of Coanicardita ventricosa 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

47 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

11 formations

Timms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.73°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WSanta Barbara — 34.41°N, 119.72°WPico — 34.41°N, 118.69°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.51°WElk River — 42.74°N, 124.49°WSan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.16°WSan Diego — 32.49°N, 117.12°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.26°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WNiguel — 33.64°N, 117.89°W

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The named rock units Coanicardita ventricosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Coanicardita ventricosa and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Coanicardita ventricosa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

907 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Coanicardita ventricosa, 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

18 references

Each of the 47 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Coanicardita ventricosa

Source
GBIF
Credit
Matt Lemay, Heather Earle, Karen Cram, Suzie Christoffel
Licence
CC BY 4.0
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 itCoanicardita through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gould 1850)