Carydium

Carydium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CarydiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Modiomorphida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Modiomorphida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Modiomorphida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 59 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 59 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 57 of 59 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 59 occurrencesCarboniferous445–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–429 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences429–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–421 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences421–416 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences416–412 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences412–408 Mya — about 1 occurrence408–404 Mya — about 1 occurrence404–400 Mya — about 1 occurrence400–396 Mya — about 3 occurrences396–392 Mya — about 3 occurrences392–387 Mya — about 8 occurrences387–383 Mya — about 30 occurrences383–379 Mya — about 7 occurrences379–375 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences375–371 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences363–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–333 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences333–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419.62 Mya358.86 Mya445 Mya321 Mya

59 occurrences of Carydium on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

59 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

Moscow — 42.90°N, 76.76°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.57°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 75.48°WMoscow — 42.58°N, 75.06°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.82°WMoscow — 42.54°N, 74.87°WMoscow — 42.57°N, 74.75°WMoscow — 42.60°N, 74.67°WMoscow — 42.59°N, 74.58°WMoscow — 42.57°N, 74.95°WMoscow — 42.47°N, 74.48°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.51°WLudlowville — 42.79°N, 75.56°WLudlowville — 42.81°N, 75.54°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 75.71°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 75.99°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.17°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.00°WTully — 42.61°N, 74.98°WTully — 42.54°N, 74.81°WTully — 42.52°N, 74.86°WLynton Slates — 51.22°N, 3.83°WGeneseo — 42.48°N, 74.61°WGeneseo — 42.46°N, 75.04°WOatka — 42.60°N, 74.33°WMarcellus — 42.51°N, 74.05°WMarcellus — 41.97°N, 74.00°WBerlé — 50.01°N, 6.05°EBerlé — 50.05°N, 6.11°EDalhousie Shale — 48.07°N, 66.37°WReudelsterz — 50.00°N, 7.00°EGefell — 50.00°N, 7.00°EGladbach — 50.00°N, 7.00°EAnanea — 15.53°S, 68.73°WOriskany — 41.35°N, 74.13°WChemung — 42.08°N, 79.49°WKowala — 50.73°N, 20.45°EBaird — 40.79°N, 122.30°W

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The named rock units Carydium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Carydium and its relatives

Devonian

Where Carydium and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

365 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Carydium, 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

12 references

Each of the 59 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 content1

Picture of Carydium

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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. Beushausen 1895