Parvicardium

Parvicardium is a genus of bivalves belonging to the subfamily Lymnocardiinae of the family Cardiidae.

Parvicardium

Jan Johan ter Poorten · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
CardiidaePBDB
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 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 194 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 194 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 24 of 194 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 78 of 194 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 69 of 194 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 194 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 194 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 11 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 15 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 24 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 24 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 21 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 24 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 21 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

194 occurrences of Parvicardium on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

194 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

Falun de Jeurs — 48.48°N, 2.23°EEugene — 44.07°N, 123.21°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.09°WEugene — 44.16°N, 123.05°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.02°WEugene — 44.04°N, 123.06°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.03°WEugene — 44.98°N, 123.21°WEugene — 44.94°N, 123.03°WEugene — 44.77°N, 123.03°WBerada — 51.10°N, 5.80°EFalun de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EFalun de Morigny — 48.45°N, 2.20°EFalun d'Auvers-Saint-Georges — 47.40°N, 4.45°EConglomerat de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°ELillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°ESable de Vauroux-Saint-Antoine — 48.43°N, 2.15°ESable de Vauroux-Saint-Antoine — 48.50°N, 2.25°EBorgloon — 50.80°N, 5.33°EBorgloon — 51.00°N, 4.50°EMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°EVejle Fjord — 55.18°N, 11.88°EVejle Fjord — 56.00°N, 9.25°EWeglinek — 50.72°N, 21.95°EWeglin — 50.72°N, 21.95°ELychow — 50.69°N, 22.03°EMamara — 39.39°N, 26.84°EKattendijk — 51.25°N, 4.28°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°ECalcaire Grossier d'Etrechy — 48.48°N, 2.23°EBrejning Clay — 56.17°N, 9.75°ECalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EPoudingue de Ciply — 50.42°N, 3.95°ECalcaire de Eisden — 50.98°N, 5.70°E

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The named rock units Parvicardium 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. 56 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parvicardium and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Parvicardium and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

1,537 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 128 sites for Parvicardium, 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

27 references

Each of the 194 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. 15 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 Parvicardium

Credit
Jan Johan ter Poorten
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Parvicardium exiguum · MCZ:Mala:372250

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Monterosato 1884