Cardiomya costellata

Cardiomya costellata

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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 least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 129 ka.

Miocene — about 6 of 12 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 12 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 12 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence11.63 Mya774 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

12 occurrences of Cardiomya costellata on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

12 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

7 formations

Bermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WLillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°EKattendijk — 51.25°N, 4.28°EGram — 55.28°N, 9.00°EMonte Vaticano — 41.90°N, 12.45°E

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The named rock units Cardiomya costellata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cardiomya costellata and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cardiomya costellata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

719 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Cardiomya costellata, 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

7 references

Each of the 12 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 content2

Picture of Cardiomya costellata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Cardiomya costellata · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:26385

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Deshayes 1833)