Protocardia rhaetica

No picture of Protocardia rhaetica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Protocardia rhaetica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 9.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 215.38 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 199.5 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 56 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 56 of 56 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 56 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 6 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 15 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 15 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 15 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215.38 Mya205.7 Mya237.8 Mya198.8 Mya

56 occurrences of Protocardia rhaetica 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

56 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

14 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 — 47.55°N, 12.17°EKossen — 47.58°N, 12.57°EKossen — 47.71°N, 13.20°EKoessen — 47.00°N, 13.00°EKoessen — 47.71°N, 13.20°EKoessen — 47.67°N, 12.70°EWestbury — 51.17°N, 3.27°WWestbury — 54.26°N, 1.28°WRedcar Mudstone — 54.26°N, 1.28°WRiva di Solto — 46.00°N, 10.00°EZu Limestone — 46.00°N, 10.00°ESumra — 25.80°N, 56.10°ENayband — 32.38°N, 57.50°EElphinstone — 26.21°N, 56.35°ELilstock — 51.17°N, 3.27°WDolomías tableadas de Imón — 40.92°N, 2.53°WYeba — 30.35°N, 92.92°EKeuper — 47.72°N, 11.98°EFogi — 3.29°S, 126.11°E

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The named rock units Protocardia rhaetica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protocardia rhaetica and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Protocardia rhaetica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

261 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Protocardia rhaetica, 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

14 references

Each of the 56 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. 2 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 content0

No picture of Protocardia rhaetica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Protocardia rhaetica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protocardia rhaetica 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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What may have been alongside itProtocardia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Merian 1853)