Tancredia
Searched as Tancredia (Tancredia) gibbosa. The Paleobiology Database treats Tancredia as the accepted name.

via iDigBio · CC0 · via iDigBio. 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
- TancrediidaePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Tellinoidea
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Tancrediidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellinoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 2.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 161.5 Mya.
4 occurrences of Tancredia on record, most of them in the Middle 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
4 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
2 formations
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Tancredia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tancredia and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Tancredia and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
1,072 taxa- Astarte47 sites
- Modiolus38 sites
- Oxytoma inequivalvis38 sites
- Liostrea36 sites
- Entolium34 sites
- Pleuromya33 sites
- Gryphaea cymbium30 sites
- Pecten priscus30 sites
- Arctica29 sites
- Camptonectes29 sites
- Chlamys substriata29 sites
- Arcomya28 sites
- Cardinia hybrida28 sites
- Plicatula27 sites
- Protocardia27 sites
- Lima23 sites
- Nuculana23 sites
- Parallelodon23 sites
- Plagiostoma23 sites
- Isognomon22 sites
- Myoconcha decorata22 sites
- Pholadomya (Pholadomya) ambigua22 sites
- Gresslya21 sites
- Oxytoma21 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 201 sites for Tancredia, 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
2 references- Unpublished data from Kachchh3
- Contributions to the Jurassic of Kachchh, Western India. VIII. The bivalve fauna. Part IV. Subclass Heterodonta1
Each of the 4 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 content3

Picture of Tancredia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Laser scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Tancredia americana · YPM:IP:YPM IP 794453
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTancrediidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lycett 1850