Nemocardium

Nemocardium is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Cardiidae.

Nemocardium

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 119 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 17 of 515 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 25 of 515 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 79 of 515 occurrencesEocene — about 255 of 515 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 91 of 515 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 39 of 515 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 515 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 515 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 5 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 3 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 3 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 3 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 4 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence87–83 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 6 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 11 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 23 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 38 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 41 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 39 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 47 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 52 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 69 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 37 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 49 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 27 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 12 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 13 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 12 occurrences12–8.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.3–4.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences119.57 Mya129 ka124 Mya0 Mya

515 occurrences of Nemocardium on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

515 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

144 formations

Byram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WCook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 31.75°N, 92.97°WCook Mountain — 32.00°N, 88.72°WCook Mountain — 32.36°N, 92.98°WCook Mountain — 30.00°N, 97.14°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 93.57°WCook Mountain — 31.32°N, 95.46°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.32°WMoodys Branch — 32.03°N, 92.02°WMoodys Branch — 31.63°N, 91.82°WMoodys Branch — 32.50°N, 92.12°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WMoodys Branch — 31.66°N, 92.90°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WMartinez — 38.21°N, 122.02°WMartinez — 38.00°N, 122.20°WMartinez — 38.00°N, 122.10°WSanta Susana — 34.31°N, 118.68°WSanta Susana — 34.23°N, 118.74°WSanta Susana — 34.09°N, 118.56°WSanta Susana — 34.22°N, 118.80°WLlajas — 34.31°N, 118.67°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WLlajas — 34.24°N, 118.76°WFlournoy — 43.02°N, 123.93°WFlournoy — 43.28°N, 123.08°WFlournoy — 43.26°N, 123.03°WFlournoy — 43.46°N, 123.57°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WRed Bluff — 31.84°N, 88.75°WRoseburg — 43.31°N, 123.12°WRoseburg — 43.01°N, 123.91°WRoseburg — 42.96°N, 123.83°WRoseburg — 43.27°N, 123.45°WRoseburg — 43.23°N, 123.41°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 31.34°N, 95.68°WWeches — 31.35°N, 95.68°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.23°N, 96.04°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 30.01°N, 97.16°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.50°WBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WBarton Beds — 51.28°N, 0.63°WBarton Beds — 50.78°N, 1.73°WBarton Beds — 50.85°N, 1.78°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WShitakara — 42.98°N, 144.38°EShitakara — 43.25°N, 144.08°EAquia — 38.82°N, 76.75°WAquia — 38.70°N, 76.97°WAquia — 38.99°N, 76.16°WAquia — 38.58°N, 77.12°WAquia — 38.43°N, 77.38°WAquia — 38.27°N, 77.18°WSelsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WMeganos — 37.95°N, 121.85°WMeganos — 37.91°N, 121.74°WLondon Clay — 51.43°N, 2.00°WLondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WLondon Clay — 51.08°N, 1.17°WLondon Clay — 51.23°N, 0.85°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.33°N, 82.76°WTejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WTejon — 34.96°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.91°N, 118.99°WTejon — 34.92°N, 118.92°WShimokine — 44.04°N, 141.85°ETuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.37°N, 88.68°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 88.05°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.25°N, 88.43°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.46°N, 85.64°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WKincaid — 29.36°N, 98.88°WKincaid — 29.89°N, 97.67°WKincaid — 29.35°N, 98.99°WKincaid — 29.35°N, 99.14°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WEnokuchi — 32.30°N, 130.30°E

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The named rock units Nemocardium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 120 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nemocardium and its relatives

Eocene

Where Nemocardium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,366 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 354 sites for Nemocardium, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

133 references

Each of the 515 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. 121 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Nemocardium

Credit
User:Nikkimaria
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Nemocardium probatum · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:325858

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itLaevicardiinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek 1876)