Palaeocardita

No picture of Palaeocardita was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palaeocardita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 170.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 168.2 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 164 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 162 of 164 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 164 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 164 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic238–236 Mya — about 3 occurrences236–234 Mya — about 7 occurrences234–231 Mya — about 3 occurrences231–229 Mya — about 3 occurrences229–226 Mya — about 4 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 5 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 5 occurrences222–219 Mya — about 5 occurrences219–217 Mya — about 5 occurrences217–215 Mya — about 4 occurrences215–212 Mya — about 4 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 8 occurrences210–207 Mya — about 11 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 22 occurrences205–203 Mya — about 49 occurrences203–200 Mya — about 24 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–181 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences181–179 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences179–176 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences172–169 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences169–167 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences233.6 Mya170.9 Mya238 Mya167 Mya

164 occurrences of Palaeocardita on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

164 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

33 formations

Kossen — 47.78°N, 13.80°EKossen — 47.66°N, 12.45°EKossen — 47.57°N, 11.77°EKossen — 47.75°N, 14.73°EKossen — 47.67°N, 12.70°EKossen — 47.79°N, 15.17°EKossen — 47.55°N, 12.17°EKossen — 47.58°N, 12.57°ENayband — 32.38°N, 57.41°ENayband — 32.50°N, 57.35°ENayband — 32.40°N, 57.45°ENayband — 33.00°N, 57.00°ENayband — 32.35°N, 57.45°ENayband — 31.15°N, 52.65°ENayband — 33.34°N, 51.91°EKoessen — 47.00°N, 13.00°EKoessen — 47.71°N, 13.20°EKoessen — 47.67°N, 12.70°ECassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.54°N, 12.25°ECassian — 46.58°N, 12.25°EZu Limestone — 46.00°N, 10.00°EFogi — 3.29°S, 126.12°EFogi — 3.36°S, 126.05°EAntimonio — 30.72°N, 112.55°WSumra — 25.80°N, 56.10°EArroyo Malo — 34.80°S, 69.87°WFatu — 9.69°S, 124.20°EFatu — 9.45°S, 124.43°EGabbs — 38.50°N, 118.08°WHanwang — 31.50°N, 104.23°EHanwang — 31.62°N, 104.43°ERiva di Solto — 46.00°N, 10.00°EMae Thang — 18.75°N, 100.00°EMae Thang — 17.50°N, 99.33°EBaldonnel — 56.05°N, 123.01°WBaldonnel — 56.06°N, 123.03°WFernie — 56.03°N, 123.05°WFernie — 56.03°N, 123.04°WCalcare di Zu — 45.85°N, 9.42°ECalcare di Zu — 45.87°N, 9.67°ELuning — 38.88°N, 117.58°WShiyuan — 31.75°N, 104.75°EChaiburi — 7.12°N, 100.17°EElphinstone — 26.21°N, 56.35°ECon Tagne Conglomerate — 20.00°N, 102.00°EGansingen Dolomite — 47.53°N, 8.13°EGermig — 28.70°N, 86.15°E

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The named rock units Palaeocardita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeocardita and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Palaeocardita and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

928 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 123 sites for Palaeocardita, 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

46 references

Each of the 164 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. 34 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

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No picture of Palaeocardita was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palaeocardita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Palaeocardita 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 itPalaeocarditidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1867