Laevicardium (Laevicardium) decorticatum

Laevicardium (Laevicardium) decorticatum

Stichting Observation International · 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
Laevicardium (Laevicardium)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Laevicardium
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Laevicardium
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Laevicardium
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesPliocene — about 13 of 15 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 15 occurrencesPleistocene5.5–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.5–4.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.4–4.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.4–3.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.2–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.9–2.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–1.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.0–830 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences830 ka–645 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6 Mya2.58 Mya5.8 Mya274 ka

15 occurrences of Laevicardium (Laevicardium) decorticatum on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

15 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

6 formations

Lillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.35°ECoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°ECoralline Crag — 52.12°N, 1.55°ETielrode — 51.12°N, 4.18°ERed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°EKattendijk — 51.25°N, 4.28°EOosterhout — 51.70°N, 5.73°E

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The named rock units Laevicardium (Laevicardium) decorticatum 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.

Laevicardium (Laevicardium) decorticatum and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Laevicardium (Laevicardium) decorticatum and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

448 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Laevicardium (Laevicardium) decorticatum, 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

6 references

Each of the 15 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 content3

Picture of Laevicardium (Laevicardium) decorticatum

Source
GBIF
Credit
Stichting Observation International
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Laevicardium pristis · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:176769

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

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What may have been alongside itLaevicardium (Laevicardium) through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wood 1840)