Americardia media

Americardia media, the Atlantic strawberry cockle, is a species of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Cardiidae, the cockles. This species can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, from Cape Hatteras to the West Indies.

Americardia media

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmericardiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Americardia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Americardia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Americardia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 45 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 18 of 45 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 21 of 45 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 3 of 45 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.6–4.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.9–3.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.3–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–1.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.8–1.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.5–1.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.3–1.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.0–775 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

45 occurrences of Americardia media on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

45 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

19 formations

Bowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WAgueguexquite — 18.09°N, 94.34°WAgueguexquite — 18.14°N, 94.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.37°N, 70.76°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.17°WGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°WBelmont — 32.33°N, 64.69°WBelmont — 32.36°N, 64.71°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 71.00°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WMao — 19.67°N, 71.40°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WIronshore — 19.33°N, 81.25°WBoca Chica — 10.62°N, 64.00°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°WRio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.17°WMontezuma — 9.65°N, 85.07°W

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The named rock units Americardia media has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Americardia media and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Americardia media and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,247 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Americardia media, 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

21 references

Each of the 45 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. 9 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 Americardia media

Credit
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Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Americardia media · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:325902

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 itAmericardia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeaus 1758)