Venericardia (Pacificor) calafia susanaensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Venericardia (Pacificor) calafiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Carditidae
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Venericardia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Carditidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Venericardia (Pacificor) calafia susanaensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Venericardia (Pacificor) calafia susanaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Venericardia (Pacificor) calafia susanaensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Venericardia (Pacificor) calafia susanaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Turritella buwaldana3 sites
- Turritella uvasana infera3 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa1 site
- Caryocorbula parilis1 site
- Cylichnina tantilla1 site
- Ficopsis meganosensis1 site
- Flabellum stantoni1 site
- Lyonsia venturaensis1 site
- Netastoma squiresi1 site
- Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii1 site
- Pachycrommium clarki1 site
- Phalium (Semicassis) tuberculiformis1 site
- Tellina (Saulella) undulifera1 site
- Turritella1 site
- Turritella andersoni1 site
- Turritella meganosensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Venericardia (Pacificor) calafia susanaensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Upper Paleocene to Lower Eocene ("Meganos Stage") Marine Megafossils in the Uppermost Santa Susana Formation, Simi Valley, Southern California2
- The pelecypod genus Venericardia in the Paleocene and Eocene of western North America1
- The geology and paleontology of the type section of the Meganos Formation (lower Middle Eocene) of California1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Venericardia (Pacificor) calafia susanaensis 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 Venericardia (Pacificor) calafia susanaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itVenericardia (Pacificor) calafia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Verástegui 1953)