Laevicardium

Laevicardium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LaevicardiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 125 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 416 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 416 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 416 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 416 occurrencesEocene — about 9 of 416 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 24 of 416 occurrencesMiocene — about 150 of 416 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 87 of 416 occurrencesPleistocene — about 131 of 416 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 1 occurrence102–97 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 8 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 12 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 17 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 25 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 48 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 74 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 216 occurrences125.77 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

416 occurrences of Laevicardium 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

416 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

127 formations

Cercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.57°N, 71.25°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.76°N, 118.28°WWaccamaw — 34.23°N, 77.94°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.29°N, 78.51°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WKubota — 37.50°N, 140.00°EFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 26.80°N, 81.30°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WFort Thompson — 26.96°N, 81.17°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WKanomatazawa — 36.66°N, 140.10°ECaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.88°WNagura Gravel — 24.43°N, 124.23°EMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WItahana — 36.00°N, 139.00°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 35.14°N, 76.77°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WLillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°ETubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.33°N, 75.41°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WMint Spring — 31.98°N, 89.42°WMint Spring — 32.27°N, 89.99°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WMint Spring — 32.36°N, 90.87°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 1.66°S, 45.37°WGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WAnastasia — 26.93°N, 80.09°WAnastasia — 26.33°N, 80.13°WAnastasia — 26.65°N, 80.45°WFels — 48.50°N, 15.76°EFels — 48.51°N, 15.74°E

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The named rock units Laevicardium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 103 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 76 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Laevicardium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Laevicardium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

4,353 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 209 sites for Laevicardium, 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

139 references

Each of the 416 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. 127 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 Laevicardium

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

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

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Swainson 1840)