Cardiolucina

Cardiolucina is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Lucinidae.

Cardiolucina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LucininaePBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 75 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 75 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 75 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 75 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 75 occurrencesMiocene — about 45 of 75 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 75 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 75 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 10 occurrences11–7.2 Mya — about 28 occurrences7.2–3.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.6–0 Mya — about 23 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka108 Mya0 Mya

75 occurrences of Cardiolucina on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

75 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

16 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.30°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.97°WTogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WTamiami — 26.64°N, 80.94°WTamiami — 26.21°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 26.10°N, 80.84°WShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WPoint Allen — 36.00°S, 137.17°EPalembang — 2.92°S, 104.75°ELower Menkrawit — 1.50°N, 116.50°EDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WLimónes — 10.00°N, 83.22°WKutai Basin — 0.17°N, 117.44°E

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The named rock units Cardiolucina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cardiolucina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cardiolucina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,501 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Cardiolucina, 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

17 references

Each of the 75 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. 5 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 Cardiolucina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sacco 1901)