Cardiomorpha missouriensis

Parrish, W. J. · CC BY 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
- CardiomorphaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 2.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 306 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 312.8 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
5 occurrences of Cardiomorpha missouriensis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
5 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
2 formations
- Glenshaw Formation · Conemaugh Group3
- Cabaniss Formation · Cherokee Group2
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The named rock units Cardiomorpha missouriensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cardiomorpha missouriensis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Cardiomorpha missouriensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Crurithyris planoconvexa5 sites
- Derbyia crassa5 sites
- Palaeolima retifera4 sites
- Edmondia aspinwallensis3 sites
- Trepospira illinoisensis3 sites
- Acharax radiata2 sites
- Allorisma costatum2 sites
- Amphiscapha catilloides2 sites
- Antiquatonia portlockianus2 sites
- Astartella vera2 sites
- Bellerophon (Bellerophon) stevensianus2 sites
- Composita ovata2 sites
- Composita subtilita2 sites
- Cymatospira montfortianus2 sites
- Desmoinesia muricatina2 sites
- Edmondia radiata2 sites
- Euphemites carbonarius2 sites
- Glabrocingulum grayvillense2 sites
- Lingula carbonaria2 sites
- Linoproductus echinatus2 sites
- Mesolobus mesolobus euampygus2 sites
- Neospirifer dunbari2 sites
- Nuculopsis girtyi2 sites
- Orbiculoidea missouriensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cardiomorpha missouriensis, 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- The fossils of the Conemaugh Formation of Ohio3
- Desmoinesian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from southwest Missouri2
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Cardiomorpha missouriensis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Parrish, W. J.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cardiomorpha missouriensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itCardiomorpha through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shumard and Swallow 1858