Dinocardium

Dinocardium is a genus of large saltwater clams or cockles, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Cardiidae, the cockles. There is only one species in the genus, Dinocardium robustum, or the Atlantic giant cockle.

Dinocardium

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
CardiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 5 of 129 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 19 of 129 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 53 of 129 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 129 occurrencesPleistocene — about 39 of 129 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 9 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.8–8.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.4–7.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.0–5.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.6–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.2–2.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.8–1.4 Mya — about 11 occurrences1.4–0 Mya — about 34 occurrences37.71 Mya11.7 ka41.9 Mya0 Mya

129 occurrences of Dinocardium on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

129 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

40 formations

Shoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WOak Grove — 30.97°N, 86.46°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 34.78°N, 76.69°WPamlico — 35.14°N, 76.77°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 35.59°N, 76.23°WPamlico — 36.33°N, 76.17°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.79°N, 81.30°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WAlhajuela — 9.21°N, 79.63°WGuajalote — 24.87°N, 98.15°WPuerto Madryn — 42.97°S, 64.31°WPuerto Madryn — 42.57°S, 64.28°WInglis Limestone — 29.23°N, 82.70°WInglis Limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WWaccamaw — 34.21°N, 81.31°WWaccamaw — 33.97°N, 78.39°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.93°N, 82.44°WArcadia — 28.15°N, 82.76°WProgreso — 2.28°S, 80.43°WHorry Clay — 34.97°N, 76.97°WHorry Clay — 33.69°N, 78.89°WRed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ENew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WAngostura — 1.09°N, 78.99°WAngostura — 0.97°N, 79.57°WDaule — 1.73°S, 80.25°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WAnastasia — 26.33°N, 80.13°WAnastasia — 26.98°N, 80.08°WBelgrade — 34.89°N, 77.23°WBelgrade — 34.77°N, 77.18°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.93°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°W

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The named rock units Dinocardium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dinocardium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Dinocardium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,960 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 83 sites for Dinocardium, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

45 references

Each of the 129 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. 33 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Dinocardium

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Dinocardium robustum · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:176765

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCardiinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1900)