Venericardia (Pleuromeris) parva

Venericardia parva (Lea, 1833), a relative of Venericardia (Pleuromeris) parva — not Venericardia (Pleuromeris) parva itself

Not Venericardia (Pleuromeris) parva. This is Venericardia parva (Lea, 1833), a relative — both are Carditidae.

Harris, G · CC0 · 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
PleuromerisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pleuromeris
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Pleuromeris
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pleuromeris
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 3.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesEocene — about 22 of 22 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 22 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41.03 Mya37.71 Mya56.5 Mya33.4 Mya

22 occurrences of Venericardia (Pleuromeris) parva 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

22 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

4 formations

Gosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 33.96°N, 92.19°WSantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.26°WLisbon — 31.54°N, 87.52°W

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The named rock units Venericardia (Pleuromeris) parva has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Venericardia (Pleuromeris) parva and its relatives

Eocene

Where Venericardia (Pleuromeris) parva and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

519 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Venericardia (Pleuromeris) parva, 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

7 references

Each of the 22 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 Venericardia parva (Lea, 1833)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Harris, G
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Venericardia (Pleuromeris) parva 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 itPleuromeris through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lea 1833)