Caprinella
No picture of Caprinella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Caprinella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IchthyosarcolitidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Ichthyosarcolitidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hippuritida
Time the record covers
At most 78 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Caprinella 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
4 occurrencesThese 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 Caprinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Caprinella and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Caprinella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
339 taxa- Baculites ovatus4 sites
- Anomia3 sites
- Cymbophora3 sites
- Gyrodes major3 sites
- Gyrodes supraplicatus3 sites
- Inoceramus3 sites
- Nuculana3 sites
- Pholadomya3 sites
- Tellina3 sites
- Aphrodina2 sites
- Arca2 sites
- Baculites2 sites
- Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus) americanus2 sites
- Crassatella vadosa2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Drepanochilus2 sites
- Eoacteon linteus2 sites
- Ethmocardium2 sites
- Eutrephoceras dekayi2 sites
- Flemingostrea2 sites
- Granocardium2 sites
- Gyrodes americanus2 sites
- Linearis2 sites
- Melanatria venusta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Caprinella, 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- Paleoecology of the Aguja formation, Brewster County, Texas2
- The fauna of the Ripley formation on Coon creek, Tennessee1
- Descriptions of New Species of Fossils, from the Cretaceous Formations of Nebraska, with Observations upon Baculites ovatus and B. compressus, and the Progressive Development of the Septa in Baculites, Ammonites, and Scaphites1
Each of the 4 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 Caprinella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Caprinella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Caprinella 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 itIchthyosarcolitidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.