Megacardita

Megacardita

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VenericardiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Carditidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Carditidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Carditidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 39 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 39 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 16 of 39 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 39 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 39 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences48.07 Mya129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

39 occurrences of Megacardita 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

39 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

24 formations

Pakhachinskaya — 60.00°N, 165.00°ENaseby Greensand — 45.02°S, 170.12°EGastellovskaya — 49.10°N, 142.96°EMachigarskaya — 54.16°N, 142.56°ETajima — 30.67°N, 131.00°EOkhonchevayamskaya — 60.42°N, 165.92°EUspenskaya — 60.42°N, 165.92°EGakkhinskaya — 58.25°N, 158.75°EKuluvenskaya — 58.50°N, 159.17°ESnatol'skaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°ERateginskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°EPinczow — 50.53°N, 20.53°ENiechobrz — 49.92°N, 21.87°EDampier Limestone — 25.53°S, 113.48°ETamala Limestone — 32.00°S, 115.75°EBundera Calcarenite — 21.89°S, 114.02°ENishikurosawa — 39.70°N, 140.12°EAleksandrovskaya — 49.11°N, 142.90°EKholmskaya — 47.05°N, 142.06°ESertunayskaya — 49.11°N, 142.90°ETakaradayskaya — 47.00°N, 142.10°EKirimiya — 32.84°N, 130.04°ETentokuji — 39.75°N, 140.41°EShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°W

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The named rock units Megacardita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megacardita and its relatives

Miocene

Where Megacardita and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

649 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Megacardita, 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

19 references

Each of the 39 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. 7 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 content1

Picture of Megacardita

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Megacardita was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itVenericardiinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sacco 1899)