Carditamera (Carditamera)

Killian Haecker · CC BY-NC 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
- CarditameraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Carditamera
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Carditamera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Carditamera
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
18 occurrences of Carditamera (Carditamera) on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
18 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Shoal River Formation · Alum Bluff Group6
- Talparo Formation6
- Tamiami Formation · Okeechobee Group2
- Springvale Formation1
- Morne l'Enfer Formation1
- Chipola Formation · Alum Bluff Group1
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The named rock units Carditamera (Carditamera) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Carditamera (Carditamera) and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Carditamera (Carditamera) and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
414 taxa- Argopecten6 sites
- Caryocorbula (Caryocorbula)6 sites
- Crassinella6 sites
- Pseudochama6 sites
- Acar domingensis5 sites
- Arcopsis adamsi5 sites
- Chione veatchiana5 sites
- Eulima5 sites
- Naticarius canrena5 sites
- Noetia (Eontia) centrota5 sites
- Saccella5 sites
- Anadara4 sites
- Arca (Arca) zebra zebra4 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes)4 sites
- Calyptraea centralis4 sites
- Cardium (Cerastoderma) waltonianum4 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula)4 sites
- Corbula (Notocorbula)4 sites
- Crassatella densus4 sites
- Cyclopecten defuniak4 sites
- Dentalium (Dentalium)4 sites
- Juliacorbula aequivalvis4 sites
- Lirophora4 sites
- Lucinisca roigi4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Carditamera (Carditamera), 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
8 references- Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad8
- The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida4
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions1
- Petuch and Roberts, 20071
- Mollusca: Shoal River Formation (Middle Miocene1
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- Olsson, 19671
- Micropaleontology and stratigraphy of a deep well at Niceville, Okaloosa County, Florida1
Each of the 18 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. 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 (Carditamera)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Killian Haecker
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Carditamera floridana · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:311591
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCarditamera through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1838