Cardiocardita (Bathycardita)

Stichting Observation International · 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
- CardiocarditaPBDB
- 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 most 6.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cardiocardita (Bathycardita) on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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- Oligocene100%
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 Cardiocardita (Bathycardita) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cardiocardita (Bathycardita) and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Cardiocardita (Bathycardita) and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Acharax1 site
- Acharax johnsoni1 site
- Acila1 site
- Acila (Acila) kholmskensis1 site
- Acila (Truncacila)1 site
- Ainicardita1 site
- Cardiomya1 site
- Chlamys (Chlamys) gackhense1 site
- Chlamys (Chlamys) wajampolkensis1 site
- Conchocele1 site
- Conchocele bisecta1 site
- Corbicula1 site
- Crassatella1 site
- Crassostrea1 site
- Cyclocardia1 site
- Cyclocardia tokunagai1 site
- Delectopecten1 site
- Delectopecten peckhami1 site
- Laevicardium1 site
- Liocyma fluctuosa1 site
- Macrocallista1 site
- Malletia1 site
- Megacardita1 site
- Megayoldia (Hataiyoldia)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cardiocardita (Bathycardita), 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
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Cardiocardita (Bathycardita)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Stichting Observation International
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Cardiocardita (Bathycardita) 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCardiocardita through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Iredale 1924