Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) elegans

Cyclocardia elegans (Lamarck, 1805), a relative of Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) elegans — not Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) elegans itself

Not Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) elegans. This is Cyclocardia elegans (Lamarck, 1805), a relative — both are Carditidae.

Stichting Schepsel Schelp · 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
Sits inside
Cyclocardia (Arcturellina)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cyclocardia
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Cyclocardia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cyclocardia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At most 7.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 8 of 8 occurrencesEocene48–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48.6 Mya40.5 Mya

8 occurrences of Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) elegans on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

8 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

3 formations

Selsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WBanc à verrins — 48.85°N, 1.94°EEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°W

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The named rock units Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) elegans and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

555 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) elegans, 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

4 references

Each of the 8 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 Cyclocardia elegans (Lamarck, 1805)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Stichting Schepsel Schelp
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 itCyclocardia (Arcturellina) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1806)