Protocardia hillana

Protocardia hillana

Basse de Ménorval, Eliane · CC BY 4.0 · 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
ProtocardiaPBDB
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 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 9 of 33 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 24 of 33 occurrencesLate Cretaceous122–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 1 occurrence110–109 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–102 Mya — about 1 occurrence102–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 5 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 5 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 5 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 4 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113.2 Mya83.6 Mya122 Mya71 Mya

33 occurrences of Protocardia hillana on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

33 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

12 formations

Galala — 29.67°N, 34.50°EGalala — 30.38°N, 33.52°EGalala — 29.28°N, 34.72°EGalala — 29.63°N, 34.40°ERaha — 28.65°N, 33.24°EAbu Qada — 29.67°N, 34.50°EAbu Qada — 29.63°N, 34.40°EBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WBlackdown Greensand — 50.87°N, 3.29°WBranderfleck — 47.67°N, 12.17°EHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°EHolywell Nodular Chalk — 51.25°N, 0.15°WWalnut Clay — 32.38°N, 98.38°WUmzamba — 29.87°S, 31.02°EChonta — 4.47°S, 77.62°WMatulla — 28.65°N, 33.24°ESalinas — 14.19°S, 12.33°E

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The named rock units Protocardia hillana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protocardia hillana and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Protocardia hillana and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

466 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Protocardia hillana, 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

15 references

Each of the 33 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. 3 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Protocardia hillana

Source
GBIF
Credit
Basse de Ménorval, Eliane
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itProtocardia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1813)