Venericardia (Rotundicardia)

Rotundicardia Heaslip, 1968, a relative of Venericardia (Rotundicardia) — not Venericardia (Rotundicardia) itself

Not Venericardia (Rotundicardia). This is Rotundicardia Heaslip, 1968, a relative — both are Carditidae.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VenericardiaPBDB
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 least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Paleocene — about 2 of 156 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 130 of 156 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 24 of 156 occurrencesOligocene62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 5 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 5 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 5 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 5 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 8 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 29 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 29 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 21 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 6 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 6 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 4 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 4 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 4 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences56 Mya33.9 Mya62.3 Mya26.6 Mya

156 occurrences of Venericardia (Rotundicardia) 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

156 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

25 formations

Moodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.32°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.57°N, 87.58°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WCook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.00°N, 89.00°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 95.51°WCook Mountain — 31.32°N, 95.46°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WRed Bluff — 31.84°N, 88.75°WRed Bluff — 31.85°N, 88.68°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 31.98°N, 89.42°WMint Spring — 32.27°N, 89.99°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WMint Spring — 32.36°N, 90.87°WWeches — 31.57°N, 93.48°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 30.01°N, 97.16°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WCrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCrockett — 30.00°N, 97.16°WKosciusko — 32.04°N, 88.73°WKosciusko — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCockfield — 32.23°N, 92.15°WCockfield — 31.88°N, 88.69°WYazoo Clay — 32.33°N, 90.15°WYazoo Clay — 31.77°N, 88.33°WYazoo — 32.47°N, 90.29°WYazoo — 32.27°N, 89.39°WBrowns Creek — 38.75°S, 143.37°ESantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.26°WForest Hill — 30.98°N, 88.73°WTepetate — 24.17°N, 110.00°WBlanche Point — 35.28°S, 138.48°EPallinup Siltstone — 35.02°S, 117.89°EGatuncillo — 9.15°N, 79.73°WBohio — 9.18°N, 79.88°WSanta Rita — 10.23°N, 70.65°WKings Park — 31.96°S, 115.83°EWautubbee — 32.34°N, 89.14°W

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The named rock units Venericardia (Rotundicardia) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Venericardia (Rotundicardia) and its relatives

Eocene

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

Found in the same rock

1,027 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 128 sites for Venericardia (Rotundicardia), and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

25 references

Each of the 156 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. 13 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.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Rotundicardia Heaslip, 1968

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Venericardia (Rotundicardia) 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 itVenericardia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heaslip 1968