Cardium (Bucardium) lillei

Cardium lillei Freneix & Grant-Mackie, 1978, a relative of Cardium (Bucardium) lillei — not Cardium (Bucardium) lillei itself

Not Cardium (Bucardium) lillei. This is Cardium lillei Freneix & Grant-Mackie, 1978, a relative — both are Cardiidae.

via GBIF · CC BY 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
BucardiumPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cardiidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Cardiidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 2.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 86.1 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous86–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86.6 Mya83.1 Mya

4 occurrences of Cardium (Bucardium) lillei on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

4 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

1 formation

Okarahia Sandstone — 42.57°S, 173.52°E

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The named rock units Cardium (Bucardium) lillei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cardium (Bucardium) lillei and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cardium (Bucardium) lillei and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

56 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cardium (Bucardium) lillei, 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

1 reference

Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Cardium lillei Freneix & Grant-Mackie, 1978

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cardium (Bucardium) lillei 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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What may have been alongside itBucardium through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Freneix and Grant-Mackie 1978