Bathytormus pteropsis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Crassatella (Bathytormus)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
55 occurrences of Bathytormus pteropsis 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
55 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
8 formations
- Providence Formation33
- Severn Formation8
- Chiwapa Formation1
- Owl Creek Formation1
- Escondido Formation1
- Snow Hill Formation · Black Creek Group1
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The named rock units Bathytormus pteropsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bathytormus pteropsis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Bathytormus pteropsis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
493 taxa- Cyprimeria44 sites
- Cymbophora41 sites
- Striarca39 sites
- Syncyclonema39 sites
- Anomia argentaria38 sites
- Camptonectes bubonis36 sites
- Granocardium35 sites
- Nuculana35 sites
- Crassatella vadosa34 sites
- Cubitostrea tecticosta34 sites
- Linearis34 sites
- Corbula32 sites
- Trachycardium eufaulensis32 sites
- Cyclorisma30 sites
- Nucula percrassa30 sites
- Crenella serica29 sites
- Turritella bilira29 sites
- Anomia ornata27 sites
- Euspira rectilabrum27 sites
- Glycymeris27 sites
- Aenona eufaulensis26 sites
- Caestocorbula26 sites
- Tellinimera26 sites
- Tenea26 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Bathytormus pteropsis, 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
7 references- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain24
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf18
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages8
- The Cretaceous formations2
- A detailed taxonomy of Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary Crassatellidae in the Eastern United States - an example of the nature of extinction at the boundary1
- A new Severn formation (Early Middle Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous) locality in Prince Georges County, Maryland1
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain1
Each of the 55 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
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No picture of Bathytormus pteropsis 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 Bathytormus pteropsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bathytormus pteropsis 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 itCrassatella (Bathytormus) through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1860)