Cardites

Cardites is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs, in the family Carditidae.

Cardites

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
CarditinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 63 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 63 occurrencesMiocene — about 42 of 63 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 63 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 63 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 10 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences37.71 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

63 occurrences of Cardites on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

63 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

18 formations

Termofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°ENancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WTogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WWeglinek — 50.72°N, 21.95°EWeglin — 50.72°N, 21.95°ENiechobrz — 49.92°N, 21.87°ELychow — 50.69°N, 22.03°EAbbas — 16.75°N, 42.00°EEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WKourtes — 35.20°N, 25.10°ECayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WShark River — 40.17°N, 74.15°WOnzole — 0.87°N, 79.89°WValiente — 9.21°N, 82.11°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.74°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.58°WBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°E

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The named rock units Cardites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cardites and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cardites and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

833 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Cardites, 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

23 references

Each of the 63 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. 11 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 content1

Picture of Cardites

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCarditinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Link 1807)