Camptonectes kaufmanensis
Roby Weis · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CamptonectesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pectinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
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.
6 occurrences of Camptonectes kaufmanensis 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
6 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
- Nacatoch Sand Formation2
- Kemp Clay Formation · Navarro Group1
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The named rock units Camptonectes kaufmanensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Camptonectes kaufmanensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Camptonectes kaufmanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
205 taxa- Cymbophora5 sites
- Nuculana5 sites
- Cucullaea4 sites
- Cyprimeria4 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata4 sites
- Laternula4 sites
- Legumen ellipticum4 sites
- Phacoides4 sites
- Syncyclonema archeri4 sites
- Veniella4 sites
- Agerostrea mesenterica3 sites
- Anomia argentaria3 sites
- Aphrodina3 sites
- Botula3 sites
- Caestocorbula3 sites
- Caestocorbula crassiplica3 sites
- Corbula3 sites
- Crassatella3 sites
- Crassatella vadosa3 sites
- Crenella serica3 sites
- Ctena3 sites
- Cyclorisma3 sites
- Etea3 sites
- Ethmocardium3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Camptonectes kaufmanensis, 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- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages3
- The larger invertebrate fossils of the Navarro group of Texas2
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
Each of the 6 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 content1
Picture of Camptonectes kaufmanensis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Roby Weis
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCamptonectes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stephenson 1941)