Pholadomya (Bucardiomya)

Cardium protei (Brongniart, 1821), a relative of Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) — not Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) itself

Not Pholadomya (Bucardiomya). This is Cardium protei (Brongniart, 1821), a relative — both are Pholadomyidae.

Edmond Pellat · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
PholadomyaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pholadomyidae
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Pholadomyidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pholadomyidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 188 million years on record.

The record covers at least 211.18 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 3 of 202 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 21 of 202 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 94 of 202 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 46 of 202 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 202 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 202 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 202 occurrencesEocene — about 13 of 202 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 202 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 202 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 202 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 202 occurrences232–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences216–209 Mya — about 1 occurrence209–201 Mya — about 1 occurrence201–193 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences193–186 Mya — about 12 occurrences186–178 Mya — about 7 occurrences178–170 Mya — about 3 occurrences170–162 Mya — about 76 occurrences162–155 Mya — about 46 occurrences155–147 Mya — about 16 occurrences124–116 Mya — about 4 occurrences116–109 Mya — about 3 occurrences109–101 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences101–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–70 Mya — about 3 occurrences70–62 Mya — about 5 occurrences62–55 Mya — about 5 occurrences55–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–32 Mya — about 9 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–8.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.6–894 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences211.18 Mya23.04 Mya232 Mya894 ka

202 occurrences of Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

202 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

51 formations

Dhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 22.62°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 22.53°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 25.53°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 26.92°N, 44.00°EDhruma — 25.17°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 25.78°N, 45.25°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 23.08°N, 46.33°EDhruma — 22.83°N, 46.83°EDhruma — 21.88°N, 45.83°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.70°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.97°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 26.20°N, 44.83°EDhruma — 26.33°N, 44.83°EShuqra — 14.27°N, 48.57°EShuqra — 14.30°N, 48.47°EShuqra — 14.32°N, 48.45°ETataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°EAlmonacid de la Cuba — 41.29°N, 0.79°WBarahona — 41.29°N, 0.79°WOkinoshima — 32.72°N, 132.55°EOkinoshima — 32.87°N, 129.55°EAntalo — 13.63°N, 39.44°EShemshak — 36.43°N, 54.47°ECalcaire a oolithes ferrugineuses — 49.30°N, 0.07°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ELellinge Greensand — 55.48°N, 10.47°ETanohata — 39.63°N, 141.78°ETanohata — 40.00°N, 141.83°EHiraiga — 39.63°N, 141.95°EHiraiga — 40.00°N, 141.83°EHanifa — 23.50°N, 46.85°EHanifa — 22.08°N, 45.90°EHanifa — 25.63°N, 45.67°EOsmington Oolite — 50.63°N, 2.37°WOsmington Oolite — 50.80°N, 2.28°WBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.57°WBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WTuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 22.43°N, 46.42°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.05°N, 45.67°EHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°ETumul — 73.00°N, 119.82°EGuadal — 47.00°S, 72.43°WKlo Tho — 15.98°N, 98.73°EYatova — 40.98°N, 0.62°WMaastricht — 51.00°N, 6.00°ELondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WRingstead Coral Bed — 50.80°N, 2.28°W

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The named rock units Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 59 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,304 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 141 sites for Pholadomya (Bucardiomya), 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

54 references

Each of the 202 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. 42 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 Cardium protei (Brongniart, 1821)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Edmond Pellat
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rollier 1912)