Aptolinter
No picture of Aptolinter 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 Aptolinter, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GrammatodontinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Parallelodontidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Parallelodontidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Parallelodontidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 6.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 110.1 Mya.
9 occurrences of Aptolinter 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
9 occurrences- Early 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
3 formations
- Atherfield Clay Formation · Lower Greensand Group7
- Folkestone Formation · Lower Greensand Group1
- Sandgate Formation · Lower Greensand Group1
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The named rock units Aptolinter has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aptolinter and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Aptolinter and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
255 taxa- Deshayesites6 sites
- Resatrix6 sites
- Senis wharburtoni5 sites
- Sphaera corrugata5 sites
- Venilicardia5 sites
- Anomia laevigata4 sites
- Freiastarte4 sites
- Mediraon4 sites
- Nemocardium ibbetsoni4 sites
- Nuculana4 sites
- Parmicorbula striatula4 sites
- Pinna robinaldina4 sites
- Prodeshayesites4 sites
- Pseudoptera4 sites
- Tessarolax4 sites
- Toxaster fittoni4 sites
- Anchura3 sites
- Brachidontes3 sites
- Camptonectes (Camptonectes) cottaldinus3 sites
- Dimorphosoma3 sites
- Falcimytilus lanceolata3 sites
- Fenestricardita fenestrata3 sites
- Gervillia3 sites
- Globularia sublaevigata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Aptolinter, 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- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand6
- The stratigraphy of the Atherfield Clay Formation (Lower Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) at the type and other localities in southern England3
Each of the 9 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 Aptolinter 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 Aptolinter, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aptolinter was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itGrammatodontinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Casey 1961