Cornucardia

Cornucardia

Edmond Pellat · CC0 · 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
Sits inside
DicerocardiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Megalodontoidea
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Megalodontoidea
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Megalodontoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 32 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 12 of 12 occurrencesLate Triassic238–237 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 1 occurrence235–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence234–233 Mya — about 1 occurrence233–232 Mya — about 1 occurrence232–231 Mya — about 1 occurrence231–230 Mya — about 1 occurrence230–229 Mya — about 1 occurrence229–228 Mya — about 1 occurrence228–227 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237.6 Mya205.1 Mya

12 occurrences of Cornucardia on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

12 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

6 formations

Tor — 46.43°N, 13.57°ERamsau Dolomite — 47.70°N, 12.85°EVeszprém Marl — 47.09°N, 17.90°EFődolomit — 47.49°N, 19.03°E"Dachstein" — 47.73°N, 15.55°EDachstein — 47.84°N, 19.28°E

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The named rock units Cornucardia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cornucardia and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Cornucardia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

218 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Cornucardia, 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

9 references

Each of the 12 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 content1

Picture of Cornucardia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Edmond Pellat
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cornucardia 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 itDicerocardiidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koken 1913