Protocardia (Protocardia)

Protocardia (Protocardia)

Preslicka, James · CC0 · 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
ProtocardiaPBDB
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 107 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 88 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 6 of 88 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 57 of 88 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 11 of 88 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 12 of 88 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 88 occurrencesLate Cretaceous202–198 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences198–194 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences194–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–182 Mya — about 3 occurrences182–178 Mya — about 1 occurrence178–174 Mya — about 2 occurrences174–170 Mya — about 11 occurrences170–166 Mya — about 22 occurrences166–162 Mya — about 22 occurrences162–158 Mya — about 3 occurrences158–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–150 Mya — about 5 occurrences150–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–142 Mya — about 2 occurrences142–138 Mya — about 3 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences121–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences101–97 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences97–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–81 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences192.9 Mya85.7 Mya202 Mya81 Mya

88 occurrences of Protocardia (Protocardia) on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

88 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

23 formations

Chari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EKaladongar — 23.50°N, 70.50°EGoradongar — 23.50°N, 70.50°EKhadir — 23.50°N, 70.50°EHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°EWashtawa — 23.50°N, 70.50°EShemshak — 36.43°N, 54.47°EDhahab — 32.18°N, 35.67°EHiraiga — 39.63°N, 141.95°EHiraiga — 40.00°N, 141.83°EGadhada — 23.50°N, 70.50°EBunjo — 33.53°N, 133.25°EKehalia — 30.71°N, 33.37°EKehalia — 30.68°N, 33.30°EQuemuoco — 33.33°N, 92.00°EShinatani — 37.02°N, 137.80°EAratozaki — 38.67°N, 141.43°ENakanosawa — 37.83°N, 140.92°EKoyamada — 37.83°N, 140.92°EHigashinagano — 34.17°N, 131.00°EVrska Cuka — 43.83°N, 22.37°EPatcham — 23.50°N, 70.50°EKimmeridge Clay — 51.74°N, 1.31°WPteroceriano — 39.25°N, 9.33°WKarai — 11.21°N, 78.99°E

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The named rock units Protocardia (Protocardia) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protocardia (Protocardia) and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Protocardia (Protocardia) and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

552 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Protocardia (Protocardia), 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

18 references

Each of the 88 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. 6 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 Protocardia (Protocardia)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Preslicka, James
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Beyrich 1845