Venericardia feruglioi

Stichting Schepsel Schelp · 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
- 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 most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 59.24 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Venericardia feruglioi 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous20%
- Paleocene80%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Venericardia feruglioi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Venericardia feruglioi and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Venericardia feruglioi and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Turritella malaspina3 sites
- Ambullospira dubia n. sp.1 site
- Aphrodina1 site
- Arrhoges1 site
- Cinulia pauper1 site
- Cominella cf. patagonica1 site
- Cominella praecursor1 site
- Glycymeris feruglioi1 site
- Gryphaea concors1 site
- Gryphaea miradorensis1 site
- Gryphaea pyrotheriorum1 site
- Haumurigonia windhauseniana1 site
- Patagocardia peterseni1 site
- Pseudolimea1 site
- Pycnodonte1 site
- Pycnodonte miradonensis1 site
- Turritella soaresana1 site
- Venus cf. venatorum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Venericardia feruglioi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Massive corals in Paleocene siliciclastic sediments of Chubut (Patagonia, Argentina)1
- Bioestratigrafia del Cretacico Superior - Paleoceno marino de la Formacion Lefipan, Barranca de los Perros, Rio Chubut, Chubut1
- Estudios Geológicos en la Región del Río Chubut Medio1
Each of the 3 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 feruglioi
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Stichting Schepsel Schelp
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Venericardia feruglioi 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 through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Petersen 1946