Austrocardium waiparana
No picture of Austrocardium waiparana 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 Austrocardium waiparana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AustrocardiumPBDB
- 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 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Austrocardium waiparana 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Austrocardium waiparana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Austrocardium waiparana and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Austrocardium waiparana and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Acesta1 site
- Anthonya1 site
- Aphrodina (Tikia)1 site
- Austrocardium acherontis1 site
- Camptonectes1 site
- Chlamys (Mixtipecten)1 site
- Cyclorismina woodsi1 site
- Dhondtichlamys1 site
- Entolium membranaceum1 site
- Eriphyla (Dozyia)1 site
- Ethmocardium1 site
- Glycymerita1 site
- Haumurigonia pseudocaudata1 site
- Haumurigonia waitangiensis1 site
- Henrywoodsia ongleyi1 site
- Henrywoodsia waiparensis1 site
- Inoceramus1 site
- Lahillia1 site
- Leionucula1 site
- Lima (Limatula) woodsi1 site
- Limopsis1 site
- Myrtea1 site
- Neiloides1 site
- Neithea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Austrocardium waiparana, 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
2 references- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages1
- New Upper Cretaceous Cardiidae (Bivalvia) from New Zealand and New Caledonia1
Each of the 2 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. 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
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No picture of Austrocardium waiparana 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 Austrocardium waiparana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Austrocardium waiparana 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 itAustrocardium through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Freneix and Grant-Mackie 1978)