Vetericardiella

Vetericardiella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CarditidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Carditidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Carditidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Carditidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 153 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 145 of 153 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 8 of 153 occurrencesPaleocene101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–72 Mya — about 12 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 28 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 28 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 28 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 28 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 8 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence83.6 Mya66 Mya101.3 Mya60.9 Mya

153 occurrences of Vetericardiella on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

153 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

20 formations

Corsicana Marl — 33.15°N, 96.04°WCorsicana Marl — 32.86°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.76°N, 96.28°WCorsicana Marl — 32.25°N, 96.29°WCorsicana Marl — 32.06°N, 96.47°WCorsicana Marl — 31.82°N, 96.54°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.75°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.52°N, 96.58°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 30.94°N, 96.95°WCorsicana Marl — 30.81°N, 97.10°WCorsicana Marl — 30.38°N, 97.49°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 30.30°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.23°N, 97.52°WCorsicana Marl — 30.19°N, 97.57°WCorsicana Marl — 29.95°N, 97.71°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.49°N, 98.19°WCorsicana Marl — 29.44°N, 98.56°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WProvidence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.97°N, 86.00°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.94°N, 86.11°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.75°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.80°N, 85.00°WProvidence — 31.96°N, 85.45°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WPrairie Bluff — 33.03°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.16°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 85.92°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WChiwapa — 34.46°N, 88.90°WChiwapa — 34.36°N, 88.92°WCorsicana — 31.13°N, 96.82°WPeedee — 33.90°N, 79.43°WSandy Hook — 40.37°N, 74.12°WSandy Hook — 40.41°N, 74.00°WOwl Creek — 34.74°N, 88.90°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WKemp Clay — 29.42°N, 98.49°WKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°WRipley — 33.89°N, 89.02°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.72°WEnglishtown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.70°WMaastrichtian chalk — 56.97°N, 9.68°ERødvig — 56.97°N, 9.68°EGlauconie de Lonzée — 50.55°N, 4.73°EKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°W

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The named rock units Vetericardiella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vetericardiella and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Vetericardiella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,011 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 146 sites for Vetericardiella, 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

14 references

Each of the 153 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. 2 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 content1

Picture of Vetericardiella

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No 3D scan of Vetericardiella 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 itCarditidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chavan 1969