Cataceramus subcompressus

Cataceramus subcompressus

Wallace, Steve · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
CataceramusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 33 of 33 occurrencesLate Cretaceous84–83 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–72 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences84.1 Mya71.7 Mya

33 occurrences of Cataceramus subcompressus 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

33 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

4 formations

Pierre Shale — 43.27°N, 104.25°WPierre Shale — 43.25°N, 104.27°WPierre Shale — 40.08°N, 105.27°WLewis Shale — 36.25°N, 106.95°WDavutlar — 40.96°N, 32.08°ESteele — 42.83°N, 105.97°W

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The named rock units Cataceramus subcompressus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cataceramus subcompressus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Cataceramus subcompressus, 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

4 references

Each of the 33 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 Cataceramus subcompressus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Wallace, Steve
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Cataceramus subcompressus 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 itCataceramus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek and Hayden 1860)