Cardiomya ornatissima

Cardiomya ornatissima

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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 1.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 129 ka.

Pliocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences820 ka–683 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences683 ka–547 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences547 ka–410 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.58 Mya774 ka4.1 Mya0 Mya

3 occurrences of Cardiomya ornatissima on record. 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

3 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

3 formations

Jackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°W

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The named rock units Cardiomya ornatissima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

260 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cardiomya ornatissima, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 Cardiomya ornatissima

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 of Cardiomya ornatissima 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1853)