Trachycardium (Trachycardium) isocardia

Searched as Trachycardium isocardia. The Paleobiology Database treats Trachycardium (Trachycardium) isocardia as the accepted name.

Trachycardium isocardia, the West Indian prickly cockle, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Cardiidae. It can be found along coast of the West Indies.

Trachycardium (Trachycardium) isocardia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Trachycardium (Trachycardium)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Trachycardium
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Trachycardium
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Trachycardium
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 34 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 34 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 34 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 14 of 34 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.7–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences20.45 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

34 occurrences of Trachycardium (Trachycardium) isocardia on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

34 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

14 formations

Mare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.92°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WWare — 11.85°N, 71.32°WWare — 11.96°N, 71.28°WWare — 11.82°N, 71.41°WCulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WWaccamaw — 34.23°N, 77.94°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 71.00°WChagres Sandstone — 9.15°N, 79.96°WAnastasia — 26.33°N, 80.13°WTamiami — 25.77°N, 80.85°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WBoca Chica — 10.62°N, 64.00°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°W

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The named rock units Trachycardium (Trachycardium) isocardia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trachycardium (Trachycardium) isocardia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Trachycardium (Trachycardium) isocardia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

418 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Trachycardium (Trachycardium) isocardia, 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

15 references

Each of the 34 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. 3 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.

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No 3D scan of Trachycardium (Trachycardium) isocardia 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.

The description on this site

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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. (Linnaeus 1758)