Megacardita incrassata
No picture of Megacardita incrassata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Megacardita incrassata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegacarditaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Carditidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Carditidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Carditidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At most 763 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 774 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Megacardita incrassata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
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The named rock units Megacardita incrassata 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.
Megacardita incrassata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Megacardita incrassata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Arca trapezia2 sites
- Callista planatella2 sites
- Circe2 sites
- Circe (Circe) scripta2 sites
- Dendostrea folium2 sites
- Diala lauta2 sites
- Diplodonta2 sites
- Dosinia2 sites
- Elachorbis2 sites
- Fragum2 sites
- Fragum erugatum2 sites
- Mactra2 sites
- Marcia2 sites
- Obtortio2 sites
- Pyrene scripta2 sites
- Rhinoclavis bituberculata2 sites
- Strombus (Euprotomus) vomer iredalei2 sites
- Tapes dorsatus2 sites
- Turbo (Marmarostoma) intercostalis2 sites
- Acrosterigma reeveanum1 site
- Arcosterigma reeveanum1 site
- Azorinus1 site
- Canarium mutabile1 site
- Chrysostoma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Megacardita incrassata, 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 referenceEach of the 2 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
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No picture of Megacardita incrassata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Megacardita incrassata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megacardita incrassata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMegacardita through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.