Ambrosea nitida
No picture of Ambrosea nitida was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ambrosea nitida firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ambrosea nitida 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Ambrosea nitida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ambrosea nitida and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ambrosea nitida and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Anomia3 sites
- Voysa3 sites
- Brachidontes2 sites
- Caryocorbula2 sites
- Cymbophora2 sites
- Dentonia leveretti2 sites
- Euspira2 sites
- Fulpia2 sites
- Levicerithium basicostae2 sites
- Ostrea soleniscus2 sites
- Pyrgulifera2 sites
- Sanoarca grandis2 sites
- Serpula2 sites
- ? Vascellum rivanum1 site
- Admetopsis1 site
- Anatimya virgata1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Brachiodontes1 site
- Craginia1 site
- Crassostrea1 site
- Cuspidaria1 site
- Dakotacorbula senecta1 site
- Flemingostrea prudentia1 site
- Levicerithium ? micronema1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ambrosea nitida, 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- Larger invertebrate fossils of the Woodbine formation (Cenomanian) of Texas2
- Paleontology of the Greenhorn cylcothem (Cretaceous: late Cenomanian to middle Turonian) at Black Mesa, northeastern Arizona1
Each of the 3 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.
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No picture of Ambrosea nitida was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ambrosea nitida firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Ambrosea nitida 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 itFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.