Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata

Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Glyptoactis
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Glyptoactis
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Glyptoactis
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 40 occurrencesPaleocene — about 4 of 40 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 36 of 40 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 40 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–40 Mya — about 9 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 9 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 9 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59.24 Mya37.71 Mya66.6 Mya33.3 Mya

40 occurrences of Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

40 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

12 formations

Gosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.57°N, 87.58°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WCook Mountain — 31.75°N, 92.97°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 29.95°N, 97.14°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.82°WWeches — 31.53°N, 94.41°WWeches — 30.01°N, 97.16°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.32°N, 86.73°WGosport — 31.53°N, 87.95°WGosport — 31.29°N, 86.55°WSomerset — 18.32°N, 77.18°WSoldado — 10.08°N, 62.01°WPorters Creek — 30.33°N, 87.00°WBlack Mingo — 33.69°N, 80.22°WYegua — 30.24°N, 96.98°WPoerters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.42°WCane River — 31.88°N, 93.37°W

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The named rock units Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata and its relatives

Eocene

Where Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

795 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata, 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

11 references

Each of the 40 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 Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata

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Credit
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata 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 itGlyptoactis (Claibornicardia) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1833)