Plagiocardium

Plagiocardium

Zythème · CC0 · via Wikidata/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 65 occurrencesPaleocene — about 6 of 65 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 11 of 65 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 65 occurrencesMiocene — about 31 of 65 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 65 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 65 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–13 Mya — about 11 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 12 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.0–6.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

65 occurrences of Plagiocardium 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

65 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

17 formations

Pendleton Ferry — 31.26°N, 93.82°WPendleton Ferry — 31.47°N, 93.57°WPendleton Ferry — 31.35°N, 93.57°WRhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°EWeglinek — 50.72°N, 21.95°EPinczow — 50.53°N, 20.53°EMarthaville — 31.74°N, 93.40°WMarthaville — 31.47°N, 93.57°WCapo San Marco — 39.90°N, 8.43°ESables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°ECalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°EMiyara — 24.51°N, 124.26°ERaging River — 47.42°N, 121.97°WWeglin — 50.72°N, 21.95°ETrachones — 37.92°N, 23.73°EKattendijk — 51.25°N, 4.28°ELillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°EKef El Haroun — 33.58°N, 7.65°WFalun de Sainte-Avit — 43.91°N, 0.66°WPanchina — 43.57°N, 10.35°E

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The named rock units Plagiocardium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plagiocardium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Plagiocardium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,536 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Plagiocardium, 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

34 references

Each of the 65 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. 22 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 Plagiocardium

Credit
Zythème
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Plagiocardium 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cossmann 1866)