Venericardia (Venericor)
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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 45 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
531 occurrences of Venericardia (Venericor) 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
531 occurrences- Late Cretaceousunder 1%
- Paleocene30%
- Eocene65%
- Oligocene5%
- Mioceneunder 1%
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
92 formations
- Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation · Wilcox Group58
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group27
- Nanjemoy Formation · Pamunkey Group25
- Kincaid Formation · Midway Group25
- Clayton Formation · Midway Group24
- Tuscahoma Formation · Wilcox Group20
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The named rock units Venericardia (Venericor) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 68 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Venericardia (Venericor) and its relatives
EoceneWhere Venericardia (Venericor) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
2,552 taxa- Turritella87 sites
- Pitar71 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta45 sites
- Tellina45 sites
- Ostrea44 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta44 sites
- Ficus43 sites
- Cadulus42 sites
- Venericor planicosta40 sites
- Natica39 sites
- Nucula36 sites
- Polinices36 sites
- Athleta petrosa35 sites
- Ancilla staminea34 sites
- Sinum34 sites
- Turritella nasuta33 sites
- Pachecoa32 sites
- Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella31 sites
- Cubitostrea sellaeformis31 sites
- Architectonica30 sites
- Athleta30 sites
- Calyptraphorus30 sites
- Caryocorbula deusseni30 sites
- Clavilithes30 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 281 sites for Venericardia (Venericor), and this reads 240 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
85 references- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda101
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region66
- Lower Eocene Faunal Units of Lousiana46
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals35
- The Midway Group of Texas23
- Taphonomy of bivalve assemblages in the upper part of the Paleogene Ashiya Group, southwestern Japan19
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs19
- Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain17
- Mollusca of the Tertiary formations of Northeastern Mexico13
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area11
- Paleogene and Early Neogene molluscan faunae in West Japan11
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)8
Each of the 531 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. 73 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
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No picture of Venericardia (Venericor) 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 (Venericor), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Venericardia (Venericor) 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.
Keep going
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. (Stewart 1930)