Beretra ripleyana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BeretraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Beretra ripleyana 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
14 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
6 formations
- Severn Formation5
- Corsicana Marl Formation3
- Owl Creek Formation2
- Providence Formation2
- Chiwapa Formation1
- Prairie Bluff Formation1
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The named rock units Beretra ripleyana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Beretra ripleyana and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Beretra ripleyana and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
307 taxa- Syncyclonema13 sites
- Anomia argentaria12 sites
- Nucula percrassa12 sites
- Paladmete cancellaria12 sites
- Striarca12 sites
- Crassatella vadosa11 sites
- Crenella serica11 sites
- Cymbophora11 sites
- Euspira rectilabrum11 sites
- Nuculana11 sites
- Turritella trilira11 sites
- Caestocorbula (Caestocorbula) crassaplica10 sites
- Cyprimeria10 sites
- Trachycardium eufaulensis10 sites
- Dentalium leve9 sites
- Granocardium9 sites
- Hamulus onyx9 sites
- Leptosolen biplicata9 sites
- Micrabacia9 sites
- Tenea9 sites
- Turritella bilira9 sites
- Vertebrata9 sites
- Bellifusus8 sites
- Cubitostrea tecticosta8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Beretra ripleyana, 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
3 references- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf7
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain4
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain3
Each of the 14 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Beretra ripleyana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Beretra ripleyana 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 itBeretra through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1858