Isocardia cor

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
- IsocardiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Glossidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Glossidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Glossidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Isocardia cor on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Isocardia cor has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Isocardia cor and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Isocardia cor and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
304 taxa- Aequipecten opercularis4 sites
- Astarte (Digitariopsis) obliquata burtinea4 sites
- Astarte gracilis4 sites
- Astarte mutabilis4 sites
- Cardita senilis4 sites
- Caryocorbula striata4 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) rotundata4 sites
- Gastrana laminosa4 sites
- Isocrassina basteroti4 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) nucleus4 sites
- Palliolum tigrinum4 sites
- Pecten maxima4 sites
- Aporrhais pespelecani3 sites
- Arctica islandica3 sites
- Bornia (Bornia) deltoidea3 sites
- Cardita scalaris3 sites
- Diplodonta dilatata3 sites
- Dosina cassina3 sites
- Galeodea3 sites
- Glycymeris3 sites
- Isocrassina omalii3 sites
- Laevicardium (Laevicardium) decorticatum3 sites
- Leda pygmaea3 sites
- Liomesus dalei3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Isocardia cor, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2

Picture of Isocardia cor
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itIsocardia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1767)