Afrocardium hirsutum
No picture of Afrocardium hirsutum 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 Afrocardium hirsutum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AfrocardiumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cardiidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Cardiidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 7.246 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Afrocardium hirsutum on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Afrocardium hirsutum and its relatives
MioceneWhere Afrocardium hirsutum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Antigona (Ventricola)1 site
- Arca turonica1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata1 site
- Callista1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Chama gryphoides1 site
- Glycymeris1 site
- Limopsis1 site
- Loripinus fragilis1 site
- Lucina columbella1 site
- Mactra1 site
- Megaxinus transversus1 site
- Myrtea spinifera1 site
- Ostrea1 site
- Phacoides1 site
- Poromya1 site
- Tellina1 site
- Timoclea ovata1 site
- Tucetona pectinata1 site
- Turritella turris1 site
- Varicorbula gibba1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Afrocardium hirsutum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 1 occurrence 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 Afrocardium hirsutum 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 Afrocardium hirsutum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Afrocardium hirsutum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAfrocardium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bronn 1831)