Meretrix (Cordiopsis)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeretrixPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 331 million years on record.

The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 2 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 4 occurrences366–354 Mya — about 1 occurrence354–342 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences45–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–9.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence351.9 Mya20.45 Mya366 Mya9 Mya

4 occurrences of Meretrix (Cordiopsis) on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

4 formations

Berchem — 51.20°N, 4.44°EViștea Limestone — 46.85°N, 23.20°EChouteau — 38.70°N, 93.23°WNorthview — 37.39°N, 93.33°W

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

Meretrix (Cordiopsis) and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Meretrix (Cordiopsis) and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

86 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Meretrix (Cordiopsis), 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

3 references

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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Meretrix (Cordiopsis) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Meretrix (Cordiopsis), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Meretrix (Cordiopsis) 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 itMeretrix through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek and Worthen 1862)