Pterocardia

Pterocardia

Fischer, Jean-Claude · CC BY 4.0 · 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
PterocardiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cardioidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Cardioidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardioidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 6 of 77 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 65 of 77 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 6 of 77 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 77 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 2 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 3 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences181–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 5 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 26 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 23 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 4 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 4 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences147–145 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182.9 Mya149.2 Mya185 Mya142.3 Mya

77 occurrences of Pterocardia 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

77 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

10 formations

Calcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.63°N, 4.92°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.68°N, 4.61°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.60°N, 4.96°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.64°N, 4.73°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 22.50°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 23.08°N, 46.33°EDhruma — 22.83°N, 46.83°EDhruma — 21.88°N, 45.83°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.85°N, 4.31°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.23°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.68°N, 4.61°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.76°N, 4.45°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.86°N, 4.14°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.60°N, 4.96°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.72°N, 4.50°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.85°N, 4.16°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.78°N, 4.40°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.65°N, 4.64°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.60°N, 4.80°EHanifa — 25.63°N, 45.67°EHanifa — 26.33°N, 45.00°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 22.43°N, 46.42°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.37°N, 45.50°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.86°N, 4.14°ENeuburg — 48.73°N, 11.18°EWhite Limestone — 51.00°N, 1.00°WMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°E

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The named rock units Pterocardia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pterocardia and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Pterocardia and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

466 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Pterocardia, 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

9 references

Each of the 77 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 Pterocardia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Fischer, Jean-Claude
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pterocardia 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itPterocardiidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bayan 1874