Protocardia intexta

Protocardia intexta

Edmond Pellat · 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 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 145.06 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 88 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 88 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 22 of 88 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 65 of 88 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 88 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–194 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 6 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 11 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 7 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 4 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 4 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 8 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 15 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 9 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 8 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 8 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 4 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences161.5 Mya145.06 Mya203 Mya142 Mya

88 occurrences of Protocardia intexta on record, most of them in the Late 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

7 formations

Tataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°EAlcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WAlcobaca — 39.52°N, 9.13°WSobral — 39.10°N, 9.27°WTrigonia clavellata — 50.80°N, 2.28°WRingstead Coral Bed — 50.60°N, 2.45°WTataouina — 33.00°N, 10.47°EAbadia — 38.98°N, 9.07°W

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The named rock units Protocardia intexta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protocardia intexta and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Protocardia intexta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

271 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Protocardia intexta, 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

6 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. 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 Protocardia intexta

Source
GBIF
Credit
Edmond Pellat
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itProtocardia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Muenster 1837)