Venericardia hamiltonensis
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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 most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Venericardia hamiltonensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
2 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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 hamiltonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Venericardia hamiltonensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Venericardia hamiltonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Ciliatocardium brooksi2 sites
- Turritella hamiltonensis2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) taliaferroi1 site
- Boreoscala1 site
- Cardium (Laevicardium) alaskensis1 site
- Cardium (Serripes) hamiltonensis1 site
- Cryptonatica1 site
- Fusinus1 site
- Haminoea1 site
- Heterodonax1 site
- Hiatella arctica1 site
- Katherinella1 site
- Lucinoma columbiana1 site
- Macoma1 site
- Mactromeris ramonensis1 site
- Nuculana (Nuculana) fossa1 site
- Panomya1 site
- Panomya norvegica1 site
- Pecten (Patinopecten) yakatagensis1 site
- Polinices (Euspira) galianoi1 site
- Psephaea corrugata1 site
- Scaphander alaskensis1 site
- Schizothaerus trapezoides1 site
- Thracia schencki1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Venericardia hamiltonensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Venericardia hamiltonensis 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 hamiltonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Venericardia hamiltonensis 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 OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clark 1932