Cardiola

Cardiola is an extinct genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs that lived from the Silurian to the Middle Devonian in Africa, Europe, and North America.

Cardiola

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CardiolidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 74 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 342.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 136 occurrencesSilurian — about 130 of 136 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 4 of 136 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 136 occurrencesCarboniferous445–442 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences442–438 Mya — about 2 occurrences438–435 Mya — about 2 occurrences435–431 Mya — about 7 occurrences431–428 Mya — about 6 occurrences428–424 Mya — about 52 occurrences424–421 Mya — about 53 occurrences421–417 Mya — about 7 occurrences417–414 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–410 Mya — about 1 occurrence410–407 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences407–403 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences403–400 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences400–396 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences393–390 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences390–386 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences362–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–355 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences355–351 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences351–348 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences348–344 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences344–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432.9 Mya358.86 Mya445 Mya341 Mya

136 occurrences of Cardiola on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

136 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

21 formations

Kopanina — 50.08°N, 14.47°EKopanina — 50.00°N, 14.35°EKopanina — 50.20°N, 12.48°EKopanina — 50.05°N, 14.37°EKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.18°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EFluminimaggiore — 39.43°N, 8.50°EFluminimaggiore — 39.50°N, 8.50°EFluminimaggiore — 39.70°N, 8.50°EOverton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WCardiola — 46.62°N, 12.87°EElton Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WElton Beds — 52.17°N, 3.42°WElton Beds — 52.12°N, 3.55°WRusne — 55.29°N, 20.98°ERusne — 55.57°N, 21.45°ERusne — 55.19°N, 21.80°EKok — 46.61°N, 12.94°ELeintwardine — 52.37°N, 2.73°WMotol — 50.03°N, 14.42°EOued Ali — 29.00°N, 3.00°WOued Ali — 29.75°N, 2.28°WPagegiai — 55.29°N, 20.98°EPagegiai — 55.57°N, 21.45°EWassonville — 41.58°N, 91.33°WPozary — 49.93°N, 14.18°ECoalbrookdale — 52.00°N, 2.00°WPerham — 46.68°N, 68.02°WShoul Limestone — 34.03°N, 6.85°WTiounkeline Shale — 26.10°N, 3.48°EMiddle Elton — 52.00°N, 4.00°WWangjiawan — 32.80°N, 106.25°EOhesaare — 58.00°N, 22.02°ENorthview — 37.39°N, 93.33°W

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The named rock units Cardiola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 62 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cardiola and its relatives

Silurian

Where Cardiola and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

722 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 95 sites for Cardiola, 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

31 references

Each of the 136 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. 19 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 content1

Picture of Cardiola

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Broderip 1839