Venericardia

Searched as Venericardia iheringi. The Paleobiology Database treats Venericardia as the accepted name.

Venericardia is a widely distributed genus of marine bivalve molluscs, in the family Carditidae.

Venericardia

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
VenericardiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Carditidae
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Carditidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 25 of 89 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 64 of 89 occurrencesPaleocene72–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 6 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 6 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 6 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 6 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 6 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 6 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 6 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 6 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 6 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 6 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences72.7 Mya61.2 Mya

89 occurrences of Venericardia on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

89 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

3 formations

Jagüel — 38.13°S, 68.41°WJagüel — 35.83°S, 69.67°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.98°WRoca — 37.07°S, 67.77°WRoca — 37.56°S, 69.85°WRoca — 37.54°S, 69.87°WRoca — 36.83°S, 69.26°WRoca — 35.52°S, 69.72°WRoca — 35.90°S, 69.53°WRoca — 35.68°S, 69.67°WRoca — 36.52°S, 69.45°WRoca — 35.83°S, 69.67°WRoca — 34.77°S, 69.55°WRoca — 34.73°S, 69.65°WRoca — 35.43°S, 69.73°WRoca — 36.20°S, 69.50°W

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

Venericardia and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Venericardia and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

2,371 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 976 sites for Venericardia, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

5 references

Each of the 89 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 content2

Picture of Venericardia

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itVenericardiinae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1801)