Orthocardium

Orthocardium

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesEocene — about 27 of 29 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 29 occurrencesOligocene57–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.07 Mya33.9 Mya56.6 Mya26.7 Mya

29 occurrences of Orthocardium on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

29 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

11 formations

Selsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WBarton Beds — 51.28°N, 0.63°WBarton Clay — 51.02°N, 1.32°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WPromina — 43.95°N, 16.12°EPromina — 43.93°N, 16.10°ESables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EBracklesham Beds — 51.28°N, 0.63°WBruxellian — 51.17°N, 3.33°EAalter — 51.08°N, 3.45°EMarnes de Foncouverte — 43.15°N, 2.57°ECastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°E

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The named rock units Orthocardium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orthocardium and its relatives

Eocene

Where Orthocardium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,137 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Orthocardium, 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

14 references

Each of the 29 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. 2 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 Orthocardium

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Orthocardium was found in Sketchfab.

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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What may have been alongside itOrthocardiinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tremlett 1950)