Carditamera

Carditamera is a genus of molluscs in the family Carditidae.

Carditamera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CarditidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 2 of 163 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 163 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 163 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 163 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 163 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 163 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 163 occurrencesEocene — about 8 of 163 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 163 occurrencesMiocene — about 36 of 163 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 42 of 163 occurrencesPleistocene — about 62 of 163 occurrences210–203 Mya — about 1 occurrence203–196 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences49–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–35 Mya — about 6 occurrences35–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–21 Mya — about 8 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 22 occurrences14–7.0 Mya — about 9 occurrences7.0–0 Mya — about 113 occurrences201.4 Mya11.7 ka210 Mya0 Mya

163 occurrences of Carditamera on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

163 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

41 formations

Caloosahatchee — 25.91°N, 81.36°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.14°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 27.34°N, 82.42°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WFort Thompson — 26.80°N, 81.30°WFort Thompson — 26.96°N, 81.17°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.21°N, 81.31°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 33.97°N, 78.39°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 33.86°N, 78.55°WWaccamaw — 33.63°N, 79.16°WYorktown — 35.51°N, 77.62°WYorktown — 37.27°N, 76.57°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 35.15°N, 77.14°WTamiami — 26.70°N, 80.99°WTamiami — 26.37°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 26.10°N, 80.84°WTamiami — 25.67°N, 80.31°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WJackson Bluff — 30.97°N, 84.53°WKirkwood — 39.46°N, 75.30°WKirkwood — 38.99°N, 74.82°WKirkwood — 39.36°N, 74.42°WKirkwood — 39.43°N, 75.23°WKirkwood — 39.47°N, 75.35°WKirkwood — 39.00°N, 75.12°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WOtuma — 13.86°S, 76.28°WOtuma — 14.45°S, 75.93°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WAnastasia — 26.65°N, 80.45°WAnastasia — 26.93°N, 80.09°WAnastasia — 26.33°N, 80.13°WParacas — 14.18°S, 76.12°WParacas — 13.91°S, 76.30°WParacas — 15.47°S, 74.62°WOak Grove — 30.90°N, 84.58°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.96°N, 82.37°WArcadia — 28.15°N, 82.76°WJama — 0.18°S, 80.32°WCulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 34.77°N, 76.65°WMulege — 27.05°N, 111.97°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°E

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The named rock units Carditamera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carditamera and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Carditamera and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,033 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 108 sites for Carditamera, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

52 references

Each of the 163 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. 40 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 content2

Picture of Carditamera

Credit
Veronidae
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Carditamera floridana · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:311591

The description on this site

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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. (Conrad 1838)