Venericardia (Venericor) nipponica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Venericardia (Venericor)PBDB
- 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 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
28 occurrences of Venericardia (Venericor) nipponica 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
28 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
10 formations
- Okinoshima Formation · Iojima Group12
- Kannondake Formation2
- Lower Iojima Formation1
- Kirimiya Formation1
- Itchoda Formation · Sakasegawa Group1
- Sakasegawa Formation · Sakasegawa Group1
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The named rock units Venericardia (Venericor) nipponica 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.
Venericardia (Venericor) nipponica and its relatives
EoceneWhere Venericardia (Venericor) nipponica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Pitar8 sites
- Eutrephoceras japonicus5 sites
- Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) margaritacea5 sites
- Crassatella fusca3 sites
- Pseudoperissolax blakei3 sites
- Solena3 sites
- Athleta (Volutospina) nishimurai2 sites
- Cymatium2 sites
- Lima2 sites
- Lima amaxensis2 sites
- Mazzalina2 sites
- Venericardia (Venericardia) mandaica2 sites
- Acesta1 site
- Athleta (Volutospina) japonica1 site
- Aturia matsushitai1 site
- Aturia yokoyamai1 site
- Branchioplax pentagonalis1 site
- Carcharodon nodai1 site
- Crassatella1 site
- Cylichna1 site
- Eucalliax yoshihiroi1 site
- Fusus1 site
- Perotrochus1 site
- Pholadomya1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Venericardia (Venericor) nipponica, 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
5 references- Paleogene and Early Neogene molluscan faunae in West Japan11
- An Eocene Nautiloid from Kyushu, Japan8
- Some Tertiary fossils from the Miike coal-field6
- New Eocene marine mollusca from the Takshima coal-field, Nagasaki Prefecture, Kyushu2
- Fossil decapod crustaceans from the Manda Group (Middle Eocene), Kyushu, Japan1
Each of the 28 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 (Venericor) nipponica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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) nipponica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Venericardia (Venericor) nipponica 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 (Venericor) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Yokoyama 1911)