Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) sulcata

Cyclocardia sulcata (Solander, 1766), a relative of Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) sulcata — not Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) sulcata itself

Not Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) sulcata. This is Cyclocardia sulcata (Solander, 1766), 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 least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEocene — about 14 of 15 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 15 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence48.07 Mya129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

15 occurrences of Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) sulcata 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

15 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

5 formations

Barton Beds — 51.28°N, 0.63°WBarton Beds — 50.78°N, 1.73°WBarton Beds — 50.85°N, 1.78°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EBruxellian — 51.17°N, 3.33°EAalter — 51.08°N, 3.45°E

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The named rock units Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) sulcata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) sulcata and its relatives

Eocene

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

Found in the same rock

747 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) sulcata, 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

Each of the 15 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 sulcata (Solander, 1766)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Stichting Schepsel Schelp
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) sulcata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itCyclocardia (Arcturellina) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Solander 1766)