Pliocardia

Pliocardia is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Vesicomyidae.

Pliocardia

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
PliocardiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Glossoidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Glossoidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Glossoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 10 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 10 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 10 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

10 occurrences of Pliocardia on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

10 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

5 formations

Lincoln Creek — 47.28°N, 123.52°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WHumptulips — 47.25°N, 123.82°WKurosedani — 36.57°N, 137.14°EMakah — 48.13°N, 123.76°W

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The named rock units Pliocardia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pliocardia and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Pliocardia and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

597 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Pliocardia, 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

8 references

Each of the 10 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 Pliocardia

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pliocardia 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.

The description on this site

Licence
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 itPliocardiinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodring 1925