Venilicardia

Venilicardia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArcticidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Venerida
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Venerida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Venerida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 38 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 38 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 23 of 38 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 38 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 38 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences164–160 Mya — about 1 occurrence160–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–154 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences154–150 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences150–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 9 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 5 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 4 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–92 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–67 Mya — about 4 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences161.5 Mya72.2 Mya167 Mya64 Mya

38 occurrences of Venilicardia on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

38 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

13 formations

Atherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 51.23°N, 0.58°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WSandgate — 50.98°N, 0.75°WSandgate — 51.35°N, 2.08°WBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WAbeih — 33.73°N, 35.53°EFerruginous Sands — 50.60°N, 1.32°WHythe — 51.08°N, 1.18°EDuwi — 30.05°N, 31.25°EOpoka — 51.33°N, 21.97°ERio Hatillo — 19.17°N, 70.67°WBranderfleck — 47.67°N, 12.17°EBihen Limestone — 10.25°N, 45.12°ERaha — 28.65°N, 33.24°EKhadir — 23.89°N, 70.39°E

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The named rock units Venilicardia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Venilicardia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Venilicardia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

729 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Venilicardia, 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

20 references

Each of the 38 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. 8 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 Venilicardia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Venilicardia 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 itArcticidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stoliczka 1870)