Cardium

Cardium

Wikipek · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
CardiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cardiidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Cardiidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 233 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 864 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 27 of 864 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 23 of 864 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 864 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 7 of 864 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 93 of 864 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 189 of 864 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 36 of 864 occurrencesEocene — about 96 of 864 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 52 of 864 occurrencesMiocene — about 186 of 864 occurrencesPliocene — about 60 of 864 occurrencesPleistocene — about 87 of 864 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence234–226 Mya — about 1 occurrence226–218 Mya — about 2 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 2 occurrences210–201 Mya — about 20 occurrences201–193 Mya — about 5 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 16 occurrences185–177 Mya — about 2 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 5 occurrences161–153 Mya — about 2 occurrences153–145 Mya — about 4 occurrences145–137 Mya — about 2 occurrences137–129 Mya — about 38 occurrences129–121 Mya — about 24 occurrences121–113 Mya — about 15 occurrences113–105 Mya — about 9 occurrences105–97 Mya — about 9 occurrences97–89 Mya — about 21 occurrences89–81 Mya — about 27 occurrences81–73 Mya — about 41 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 102 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 29 occurrences56–48 Mya — about 12 occurrences48–40 Mya — about 23 occurrences40–32 Mya — about 70 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 39 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 57 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 99 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 185 occurrences233.6 Mya11.7 ka242 Mya0 Mya

864 occurrences of Cardium on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

864 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

215 formations

Prairie Bluff — 34.51°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.72°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 33.52°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.31°N, 87.80°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 87.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.99°N, 85.92°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.89°WProvidence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.97°N, 86.00°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.21°WProvidence — 31.78°N, 85.14°WProvidence — 31.75°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.80°N, 85.00°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMarshalltown — 39.54°N, 75.72°WMarshalltown — 39.73°N, 75.65°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WBlack Creek — 34.68°N, 78.23°WBlack Creek — 34.58°N, 78.27°WBlack Creek — 35.23°N, 77.79°WBlack Creek — 35.22°N, 77.68°WBlack Creek — 35.46°N, 77.68°WBlack Creek — 35.67°N, 77.47°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 1.00°S, 48.00°WPirabas — 1.23°S, 47.40°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WRed Crag — 51.87°N, 1.29°ERed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°EPromina — 43.95°N, 16.12°EPromina — 43.93°N, 16.07°ESan Emigdio — 35.06°N, 119.18°WVistula — 54.28°N, 19.48°EVistula — 53.94°N, 19.33°EPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.47°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.63°N, 85.59°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.56°N, 82.39°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.33°N, 82.76°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.28°N, 83.71°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.40°N, 83.17°WAurora Limestone — 26.42°N, 103.25°WNorwich Crag — 52.58°N, 1.38°EMera — 46.82°N, 23.45°EMera — 47.40°N, 23.85°EMera — 46.85°N, 23.35°EMera — 46.87°N, 23.38°EMera — 47.30°N, 23.75°EMera — 47.33°N, 23.45°EMera — 47.28°N, 23.35°ECalcare di Zu — 45.85°N, 9.42°ECalcare di Zu — 45.85°N, 9.48°EMungo River — 4.44°N, 9.49°EMungo River — 4.50°N, 9.49°EMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.72°WKoronia — 35.08°N, 33.17°EKoronia — 35.05°N, 33.05°EKoronia — 35.03°N, 33.15°EKoronia — 35.05°N, 33.10°EPeedee — 34.40°N, 78.27°WPeedee — 34.48°N, 78.41°WOcala Limestone — 29.01°N, 82.68°WOcala Limestone — 29.25°N, 82.17°WRipley — 31.79°N, 85.13°WRipley — 33.89°N, 89.02°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°E

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The named rock units Cardium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 191 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 294 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cardium and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cardium and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

3,012 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 585 sites for Cardium, and this reads 240 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

274 references

Each of the 864 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. 262 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 content4

Picture of Cardium

Credit
Wikipek
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D scan

Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it
Specimen
Cardium costatum

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Cardium maxicostatum · usnm:invertebrate zoology:767846

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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. Linnaeus 1758