Purpurocardia

Purpurocardia

GrahamBould · Public Domain · 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
VenericardiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 129 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 17 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 17 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 17 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 17 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 17 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence66 Mya774 ka85 Mya0 Mya

17 occurrences of Purpurocardia 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

17 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

8 formations

Kauru — 45.06°S, 170.73°EKauru — 44.79°S, 170.51°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°EKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.00°WDomanda — 29.93°N, 70.12°EWangaloa — 46.18°S, 170.00°ERed Bluff Tuff — 43.82°S, 176.50°WWaiomio — 40.03°S, 175.48°EGran Bajo del Gualicho — 40.38°S, 65.25°W

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The named rock units Purpurocardia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Purpurocardia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Purpurocardia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

166 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Purpurocardia, 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

8 references

Each of the 17 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 content1

Picture of Purpurocardia

Credit
GrahamBould
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Purpurocardia 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 itVenericardiinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Maxwell 1969