Subvenericardia

Not Subvenericardia. This is Unio tumidus Philipsson, 1788, a relative.
-919270953 · CC BY 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
- VeneridaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Venerida
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Venerida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Venerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Subvenericardia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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.
Subvenericardia and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Subvenericardia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
138 taxa- Freiastarte3 sites
- Mulinoides3 sites
- Profragum3 sites
- Veniella3 sites
- Amphidonte2 sites
- Atreta2 sites
- Baluchicardia2 sites
- Caryocorbula2 sites
- Cucullaea2 sites
- Inoceramus (Endocostea)2 sites
- Legumen ellipticum2 sites
- Modiolus2 sites
- Panopea2 sites
- Spondylus2 sites
- Trigonarca furoni2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) demessa1 site
- Acila (Truncacila) princeps1 site
- Acutostrea incurva1 site
- Adelodonax1 site
- Agelasina plenodonta1 site
- Agerostrea1 site
- Agerostrea ungulatus1 site
- Aklydonion murrayae1 site
- Anofia aro1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Subvenericardia, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Unio tumidus Philipsson, 1788
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- -919270953
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Subvenericardia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itVenerida through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.