Protocardia piettei

Protocardia piettei

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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 most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 154.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 7 of 9 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 9 occurrencesLate Jurassic168–168 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.7 Mya154.3 Mya

9 occurrences of Protocardia piettei 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

9 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

Tataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.87°N, 4.06°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°E

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The named rock units Protocardia piettei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Protocardia piettei and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

37 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Protocardia piettei, 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

2 references

Each of the 9 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 content1

Picture of Protocardia piettei

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Protocardia piettei 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 Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer 1969