Isocardia

Isocardia

Emőke Dénes · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
GlossidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Glossidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Glossidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Glossidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 419 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 96 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 96 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 96 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 96 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 96 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 96 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 4 of 96 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 11 of 96 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 96 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 96 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 28 of 96 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 28 of 96 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 96 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 96 occurrencesOligocene — about 6 of 96 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 96 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 96 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 96 occurrences435–421 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences421–406 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247–232 Mya — about 1 occurrence218–203 Mya — about 2 occurrences203–189 Mya — about 8 occurrences189–174 Mya — about 4 occurrences174–160 Mya — about 3 occurrences160–145 Mya — about 4 occurrences145–131 Mya — about 11 occurrences131–116 Mya — about 6 occurrences116–102 Mya — about 11 occurrences102–87 Mya — about 20 occurrences87–73 Mya — about 7 occurrences73–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences419.62 Mya11.7 ka435 Mya0 Mya

96 occurrences of Isocardia on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

96 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

36 formations

Ladd — 33.73°N, 117.62°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.68°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.64°WRio Tascadero — 30.89°S, 70.52°WRio Tascadero — 30.89°S, 70.55°WCoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.35°EVuache — 46.83°N, 6.52°EUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.90°N, 6.34°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.01°N, 6.35°ELo Valdés — 33.83°S, 70.08°WRiachuelo — 10.50°S, 37.50°WRiachuelo — 10.71°S, 37.20°WBlack Creek — 35.22°N, 77.68°WBlack Creek — 35.67°N, 77.47°WCalcare di Zu — 45.85°N, 9.42°EMergel and Kalk Zone — 47.02°N, 6.92°EVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WOued Ali — 29.75°N, 2.28°WAlmstrom Creek — 68.23°N, 135.93°WKingak — 68.32°N, 137.78°WManuel Creek — 67.97°N, 136.38°WMurray Ridge — 68.03°N, 136.45°WGram — 55.31°N, 9.06°ECalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WBanos del Flaco — 33.83°S, 70.33°WConglomérats de Bargy — 46.02°N, 6.46°EAhlen — 51.80°N, 7.95°EQimugen — 41.00°N, 84.00°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°E

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The named rock units Isocardia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Isocardia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Isocardia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,006 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 86 sites for Isocardia, 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

43 references

Each of the 96 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. 31 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 content2

Picture of Isocardia

Credit
Emőke Dénes
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itGlossidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1799