Venericardia (Venericor) mediaplata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Venericardia (Venericor)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Carditidae
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Venericardia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Carditidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 59.24 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Venericardia (Venericor) mediaplata on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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- Paleocene100%
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
3 formations
- Clayton Formation · Midway Group12
- Porters Creek Formation · Midway Group1
- Kincaid Formation · Midway Group1
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The named rock units Venericardia (Venericor) mediaplata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Venericardia (Venericor) mediaplata and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Venericardia (Venericor) mediaplata and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Ostrea crenulimarginata9 sites
- Mesalia alabamiensis7 sites
- Turritella7 sites
- Glycymeris idonea5 sites
- Venericardia (Venericor) smithii5 sites
- Cucullaea3 sites
- Natica3 sites
- Ostrea pulaskensis3 sites
- Callianassa2 sites
- Calyptraphorus2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Hercoglossa ulrichi2 sites
- Mesalia2 sites
- Orthosurcula2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Pitar2 sites
- Plagiochasma cruciferum2 sites
- Teredo2 sites
- Vertebrata2 sites
- Acipenseridae1 site
- Bullata semen1 site
- Callianassa mortoni1 site
- Calorhadia1 site
- Calyptraea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Venericardia (Venericor) mediaplata, 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
4 references- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region9
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda6
- The fauna of the Clayton Formation (Paleocene, Danian) of southern Illinois: a case of K/P survivorship and Danian recovery1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene Mollusks of the Southern and Eastern United States Part II. Gastropoda1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Venericardia (Venericor) mediaplata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Venericardia (Venericor) mediaplata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Venericardia (Venericor) mediaplata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itVenericardia (Venericor) through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gardner and Bowles 1939