Pseudocardium

Pseudocardium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MactrinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Mactridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Mactridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Mactridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 774 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 117 occurrencesEocene — about 42 of 117 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 117 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 46 of 117 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 117 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 117 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 4 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 9 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 10 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 12 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 10 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 9 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 9 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence48.07 Mya2.58 Mya57 Mya0 Mya

117 occurrences of Pseudocardium on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

117 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

35 formations

Temblor — 35.95°N, 120.25°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.22°WTemblor — 36.34°N, 120.36°WTemblor — 35.50°N, 119.78°WMeganos — 37.95°N, 121.85°WMeganos — 37.91°N, 121.74°WMeganos — 37.85°N, 121.64°WSan Emigdio — 35.06°N, 119.18°WSan Emigdio — 35.00°N, 119.29°WSan Emigdio — 34.91°N, 119.11°WSan Emigdio — 34.92°N, 119.18°WEtchegoin — 35.90°N, 120.00°WEtchegoin — 36.02°N, 120.04°WEtchegoin — 36.28°N, 120.30°WEtchegoin — 36.23°N, 120.31°WEtchegoin — 36.12°N, 120.41°WEtchegoin — 36.06°N, 120.45°WEugene — 44.07°N, 123.21°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.02°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.09°WEugene — 44.98°N, 123.21°WJacalitos — 36.09°N, 120.41°WJacalitos — 36.09°N, 120.47°WJacalitos — 36.04°N, 120.45°WJacalitos — 35.97°N, 120.18°WIshiizawa — 42.77°N, 143.81°EQuimper — 48.00°N, 122.83°WQuimper — 47.95°N, 122.68°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WEzhovyi — 60.42°N, 165.92°EMonterey — 33.60°N, 117.80°WMonterey — 47.06°N, 123.39°WAusinskaya — 47.67°N, 142.01°EAusinskaya — 47.05°N, 142.06°EMaruyamskaya — 47.42°N, 142.50°ESooke — 48.38°N, 123.90°WSooke — 48.43°N, 124.09°WVaqueros — 35.24°N, 120.09°WVaqueros — 35.84°N, 121.06°WSisquoc — 34.81°N, 120.22°WEnemtenskaya — 58.00°N, 158.00°EKakertskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°ENiklekuyul'skaya — 62.50°N, 167.00°EYaponskikh Kamney — 60.22°N, 165.50°ECowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WNutovskaya — 52.57°N, 143.23°EPomyrskaya — 54.16°N, 142.56°ESertunayskaya — 49.11°N, 142.90°E

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The named rock units Pseudocardium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudocardium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pseudocardium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

804 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 90 sites for Pseudocardium, 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

30 references

Each of the 117 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. 18 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 content2

Picture of Pseudocardium

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itMactrinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1866)