Protocardia philippiana

No picture of Protocardia philippiana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Protocardia philippiana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 199.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 192.9 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 4 of 7 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 7 occurrencesEarly Jurassic228–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 1 occurrence201–199 Mya — about 1 occurrence199–198 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences196–195 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences195–193 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205.7 Mya199.5 Mya228 Mya192.2 Mya

7 occurrences of Protocardia philippiana on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

7 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

3 formations

Mecsek Coal — 46.16°N, 18.32°EJinji — 22.16°N, 112.50°ECalcare di Zu — 45.85°N, 9.42°E

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The named rock units Protocardia philippiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protocardia philippiana and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Protocardia philippiana and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

224 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Protocardia philippiana, 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

4 references

Each of the 7 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

Media content0

No picture of Protocardia philippiana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Protocardia philippiana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protocardia philippiana was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itProtocardia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dunker 1847)