Pygocardia

Pygocardia

Stichting Observation International · CC BY-NC 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
ArcticidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Venerida
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Venerida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Venerida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesPliocene — about 15 of 21 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 21 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence928 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence23.04 Mya2.58 Mya27.8 Mya0 Mya

21 occurrences of Pygocardia on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

21 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

6 formations

Lillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.35°ECoralline Crag — 52.12°N, 1.55°ECoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°ERed Crag — 52.03°N, 1.32°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°EBrejning Clay — 56.17°N, 9.75°ETielrode — 51.12°N, 4.18°EOosterhout — 51.70°N, 5.73°E

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The named rock units Pygocardia 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.

Pygocardia and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Pygocardia and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

432 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Pygocardia, 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 21 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 Pygocardia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Stichting Observation International
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Pygocardia 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 itArcticidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer 1887