Acanthocardia (Acanthocardia) echinata

Acanthocardia (Acanthocardia) echinata

Charcos Companhia · CC BY-NC 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
Acanthocardia (Acanthocardia)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cardiidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Cardiidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 4 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 16 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 16 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence404 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

16 occurrences of Acanthocardia (Acanthocardia) echinata on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

16 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

6 formations

Red Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ENicosia — 35.10°N, 33.15°ELecze — 54.18°N, 19.45°EKourtes — 35.20°N, 25.10°ECapo San Marco — 39.90°N, 8.43°EWexford Gravels — 52.43°N, 6.33°W

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The named rock units Acanthocardia (Acanthocardia) echinata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acanthocardia (Acanthocardia) echinata and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Acanthocardia (Acanthocardia) echinata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

447 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Acanthocardia (Acanthocardia) echinata, 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

15 references

Each of the 16 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. 3 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 content3

Picture of Acanthocardia (Acanthocardia) echinata

Source
GBIF
Credit
Charcos Companhia
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Acanthocardia aculeata · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:8411

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAcanthocardia (Acanthocardia) through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1767)