Cataceramus

Cataceramus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
InoceramidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 134 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 134 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 133 of 134 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 134 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 3 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 10 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 24 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 24 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 24 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 24 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 10 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 9 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 4 occurrences89.8 Mya72.2 Mya145 Mya64 Mya

134 occurrences of Cataceramus 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

134 occurrences

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

33 formations

Pierre Shale — 43.25°N, 104.27°WPierre Shale — 44.19°N, 99.70°WPierre Shale — 43.25°N, 104.27°WPierre Shale — 40.08°N, 105.27°WAhlen — 51.80°N, 8.05°EAhlen — 51.80°N, 8.00°EAhlen — 51.72°N, 8.03°EAhlen — 51.70°N, 7.92°EAhlen — 51.87°N, 7.90°EBearpaw — 48.03°N, 106.33°WBearpaw — 48.03°N, 106.36°WBearpaw — 48.19°N, 106.39°WBearpaw — 48.27°N, 106.14°WBearpaw — 48.15°N, 106.14°WDavutlar — 41.63°N, 33.08°EDavutlar — 40.96°N, 32.08°EDavutlar — 41.15°N, 28.87°EAnacacho Limestone — 29.35°N, 99.14°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.18°N, 100.03°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.03°N, 99.14°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.19°N, 100.30°WLewis Shale — 43.27°N, 104.27°WLewis Shale — 36.25°N, 106.95°WLewis Shale — 36.46°N, 106.84°WLewis Shale — 36.98°N, 106.70°WMancos Shale — 38.90°N, 107.93°WMancos Shale — 40.76°N, 108.89°WNiobrara — 38.25°N, 104.60°WNiobrara — 36.35°N, 104.79°WNiobrara — 36.35°N, 104.60°WOcozocoautla — 16.93°N, 93.08°WBearpaw — 49.36°N, 110.42°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WMungo River — 4.44°N, 9.49°EMungo River — 4.46°N, 9.49°EPecan Gap Chalk — 29.44°N, 98.67°WBearpaw Shale — 49.77°N, 107.44°WToyajo — 34.07°N, 135.25°ELa Mesa — 5.25°S, 81.13°WYorimatsu — 33.25°N, 132.75°EHarvey River — 18.38°N, 78.13°WInoceramus Shales — 18.43°N, 77.18°WPigeon Point — 37.26°N, 122.41°WPanoche — 37.45°N, 121.25°WMoreno — 37.41°N, 121.19°WMerced — 37.19°N, 121.09°WKunino — 43.19°N, 24.00°E

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The named rock units Cataceramus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cataceramus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cataceramus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

983 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 125 sites for Cataceramus, 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

42 references

Each of the 134 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. 30 further references are not listed. 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 Cataceramus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cataceramus 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.

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What may have been alongside itInoceramidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cox 1969)