Venericardia carolinensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VenericardiaPBDB
- 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 least 7.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
23 occurrences of Venericardia carolinensis 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
23 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group11
- Tallahatta Formation · Claiborne Group6
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group4
- McBean Formation · Claiborne Group1
- Byram Marl Formation1
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The named rock units Venericardia carolinensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Venericardia carolinensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Venericardia carolinensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
417 taxa- Callista (Callista) perovata15 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis12 sites
- Crepidula lirata11 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) ungulina11 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda11 sites
- Agaronia alabamensis10 sites
- Ancilla staminea10 sites
- Athleta petrosa10 sites
- Caestocorbula murchisonii10 sites
- Glycymeris staminea10 sites
- Linga (Cavilinga) pomilia10 sites
- Retusa galba10 sites
- Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata10 sites
- Bathytormus protextus9 sites
- Callista (Costacallista) aequorea9 sites
- Calyptraphorus velatus9 sites
- Haustator carinata9 sites
- Lirodiscus tellinoides9 sites
- Mesalia vetusta9 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) ovula9 sites
- Buccitriton sagenum8 sites
- Bullata semen8 sites
- Costacallista mortoni8 sites
- Glycymeris trigonella8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Venericardia carolinensis, 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
6 references- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region13
- Effects of sampling on paleoecologic and taphonomic analyses in high-diversity fossil accumulations: an example from the Eocene Gosport Sand, Alabama6
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs1
- Geologic section exposed in Lone Star Cement Company quarry at St. Stephens Bluff on Tombigbee River, 2 2 miles northeast of the present town of St Stephens, Ala1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
- Observations on the Eocene formations, and descriptions of one hundred and five new fossils from that period, from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi; with an appendix1
Each of the 23 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 content0
No picture of Venericardia carolinensis 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 carolinensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Venericardia carolinensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itVenericardia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1848)