Cordiopsis incrassata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Pelecyora (Cardiopsis)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
66 occurrences of Cordiopsis incrassata on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
66 occurrencesThese 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
18 formations
- Falun de Jeurs Formation14
- Falun de Morigny Formation6
- Ameki Formation · Bende-Ameki Group5
- Falun de Pierrefitte Formation4
- Borgloon Formation · Tongeren Group4
- Falun d'Auvers-Saint-Georges Formation3
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The named rock units Cordiopsis incrassata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cordiopsis incrassata and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Cordiopsis incrassata and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
609 taxa- Glycymeris38 sites
- Granulolabium plicatum38 sites
- Calyptraea36 sites
- Lentidium (Ajanssenium) nitidum36 sites
- Turboella turbinata36 sites
- Lucina35 sites
- Parvicardium35 sites
- Bittium34 sites
- Ctena34 sites
- Polinices34 sites
- Cytherea (Callista) splendida33 sites
- Benoistia31 sites
- Odostomia31 sites
- Saxolucina31 sites
- Tivelina31 sites
- Parvilucina30 sites
- Tympanotonos30 sites
- Veneridae30 sites
- Arcopagia29 sites
- Paralucinella undulata29 sites
- Lunatia28 sites
- Bayania semidecussata27 sites
- Habecardium tenuisulcatum27 sites
- Abra26 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Cordiopsis incrassata, 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
10 references- Biostratigraphie et paleoecologie des gisements types du Stampian de la region d''Etampes (Essonne)36
- Karagyuleva, 19646
- Late Oligocene gastropods and bivalves from the Lower and Upper Austrian Molasse Basin5
- Eocene Mollusca from Nigeria5
- The molluscan fauna of the Borgloon Formation in Belgium (Rupelian, Early Oligocene)4
- Fauna de moluste a depozitelor Paleogene din nord-vestul Transilvaniei [Molluscan fauna from Paleogene deposits from NW Transilvania]4
- Computer-based mollusc stratigraphy - a case study from the Eggenburgian (Lower Miocene) type region (NE Austria)2
- Fauna Fosila din Oligocenul de la Piatra Neamt2
- Die Alzey-Formation der klassichen Lokalitat Wlschberg bei Waldbockelheim (Rupelium, Oligozan, Mainzer Becken) - Ergebnisse neuer Grabungen1
- Sirenlagerstatten in den marinen flachwasser-ablagerungen der eggenberger bucht (Burgschleinitz-Formation, Eggenburgium, Untermiozan)1
Each of the 66 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 Cordiopsis incrassata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Natural History Museum Rotterdam
- 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 itPelecyora (Cardiopsis) through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nyst 1836)