Protocardia truncata

No picture of Protocardia truncata 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 truncata, 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 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 182.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 180.4 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 31 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 31 of 31 occurrencesEarly Jurassic202–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences198–198 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences196–195 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 1 occurrence192–192 Mya — about 2 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 2 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 2 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 2 occurrences189–189 Mya — about 2 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 2 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 2 occurrences187–187 Mya — about 2 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 2 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 2 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 2 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 5 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 5 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192.9 Mya182.9 Mya201.9 Mya179.9 Mya

31 occurrences of Protocardia truncata on record, most of them in the Early 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

31 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

7 formations

Cleveland Ironstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WWhitby Mudstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WLower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WSierra de Santa Rosa — 30.72°N, 112.56°WUpper Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WMiddle Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WAmaltheenton — 49.79°N, 11.04°E

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The named rock units Protocardia truncata 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 truncata and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Protocardia truncata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

183 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Protocardia truncata, 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

5 references

Each of the 31 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. 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 truncata 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 truncata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protocardia truncata 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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What may have been alongside itProtocardia through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1827