Acanthotrigonia shepstonei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Pterotrigonia (Acanthotrigonia)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Trigoniida
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Trigoniida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Trigoniida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
2 occurrences of Acanthotrigonia shepstonei on record, most of them in the Late 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Acanthotrigonia shepstonei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Acanthotrigonia shepstonei and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Acanthotrigonia shepstonei and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Acanthocardia1 site
- Acteonella1 site
- Anagaudryceras involvulum1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Avellana1 site
- Baculites boulei1 site
- Callianassa1 site
- Camptonectes virgatus1 site
- Crassatella1 site
- Cryptorhytis1 site
- Eostriatolamia gracilis1 site
- Eriphyla lenticularis1 site
- Exogyra1 site
- Glycymeris1 site
- Gyrodes (Gyrodes) tenellus1 site
- Hypophylloceras (Hypophylloceras)1 site
- Inoceramus expansus1 site
- Linotrigonia1 site
- Mesocallista1 site
- Mossamedites serratocarinatus1 site
- Neithea quinquecostata1 site
- Nordenskjoldia natalensis1 site
- Nucula1 site
- Palaeomoera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Acanthotrigonia shepstonei, 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
2 references- Upper Cretaceous (Turonian-Coniacian) ammonites from São Nicolau, Angola1
- Die geologische Entwicklung von Süd-Mozambique seit der Unterkreide und die Ammoniten-Fauna von Unterkreide und Cenoman1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Acanthotrigonia shepstonei 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 Acanthotrigonia shepstonei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acanthotrigonia shepstonei 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 itPterotrigonia (Acanthotrigonia) through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Griesbach 1871)