Cardiomya alkiensis
No picture of Cardiomya alkiensis 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 Cardiomya alkiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CardiomyaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cardiomya
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Cardiomya
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardiomya
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cardiomya alkiensis 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
2 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 Cardiomya alkiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cardiomya alkiensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Cardiomya alkiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Pitar2 sites
- Acila (Acila) gettysburgensis1 site
- Ancistrolepis clarki1 site
- Ancistrolepis landesi1 site
- Anechinocardium lorenzanum1 site
- Balanophyllia1 site
- Balantium1 site
- Bathybembix washingtoniana1 site
- Bruclarkia thor1 site
- Calyptraea diegoana1 site
- Cochlodesma bainbridgensis1 site
- Conchocele bisecta1 site
- Crepidula ungana1 site
- Cyclocardia castor1 site
- Cyclocardia hannai1 site
- Epitonium (Cirsotrema) saundersi1 site
- Ficus modesta1 site
- Fusinus (Priscofusus) hannibali1 site
- Gyrineum goodspeedi1 site
- Leda alkiensis1 site
- Leucosyrinx clallamensis wardi1 site
- Liracassis rex1 site
- Macoma lorenzoensis arnoldi1 site
- Macrocallista cathcartensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cardiomya alkiensis, 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 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cardiomya alkiensis 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 Cardiomya alkiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cardiomya alkiensis 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 itCardiomya through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Durham 1944)