Verticordia

Verticordia is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Verticordiidae.

Verticordia

Marie Hennion · CC BY 4.0 · 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
VerticordiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 129 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 99 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 14 of 99 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 49 of 99 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 24 of 99 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 99 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 99 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 99 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 6 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 5 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 14 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 13 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 8 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 9 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 8 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–9.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–2.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence66 Mya774 ka74 Mya0 Mya

99 occurrences of Verticordia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

99 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

33 formations

Cook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.75°N, 92.97°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 31.11°N, 95.94°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.66°N, 92.90°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ELellinge Greensand — 55.48°N, 10.47°ELisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 31.98°N, 89.42°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WMint Spring — 32.36°N, 90.87°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WYazoo Clay — 32.33°N, 90.15°WYazoo Clay — 32.01°N, 92.00°WPallinup Siltstone — 35.02°S, 117.89°EGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WCockfield — 31.88°N, 88.69°WForest Hill — 30.98°N, 88.73°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WMaastrichtian chalk — 56.97°N, 9.68°EChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WTalara — 4.74°S, 81.30°WMancora — 5.20°S, 80.63°WChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WGoose Creek — 33.33°N, 80.15°WMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°ELondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°ELillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°E

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The named rock units Verticordia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Verticordia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Verticordia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,683 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Verticordia, and this reads all 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

29 references

Each of the 99 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. 17 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Verticordia

Credit
Marie Hennion
Licence
CC BY 4.0
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

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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 itVerticordiidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1844