Cypricardia siliqua
No picture of Cypricardia siliqua was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cypricardia siliqua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CypricardiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Venerida
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Venerida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Venerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 2.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 264.28 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cypricardia siliqua on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
1 occurrences- Permian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cypricardia siliqua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cypricardia siliqua and its relatives
PermianWhere Cypricardia siliqua and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Bivalvia1 site
- Dielasma elongatum1 site
- Etheripecten leniusculus1 site
- Glendonia duodecimcostata1 site
- Megadesmus (Cleobis) grandis1 site
- Merismopteria macroptera1 site
- Mourlonopsis strzeleckiana1 site
- Platyschisma rotundatum1 site
- Pyramus myiformis1 site
- Spirifer1 site
- Stenopora gracilis1 site
- Sulciplica phalaena1 site
- Terebratula1 site
- Tribrachyocrinus1 site
- Warthia micromphala1 site
- Warthia stricta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cypricardia siliqua, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Cypricardia siliqua was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cypricardia siliqua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cypricardia siliqua 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 itCypricardia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dana 1847)