Chenopus (Maussenetia) dimorphospira
No picture of Chenopus (Maussenetia) dimorphospira 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 Chenopus (Maussenetia) dimorphospira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Chenopus (Maussenetia)PBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Chenopus (Maussenetia) dimorphospira on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
3 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
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The named rock units Chenopus (Maussenetia) dimorphospira 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.
Chenopus (Maussenetia) dimorphospira and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Chenopus (Maussenetia) dimorphospira and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Heligmotenia molli2 sites
- Linthia sudanensis2 sites
- Athleta (Neoathleta) cithara1 site
- Cardium galaticum1 site
- Conus1 site
- Crassostrea soudanensis1 site
- Crocodylus1 site
- Deltoidonautilus lemoinei1 site
- Deltoidonautilus molli1 site
- Gisortia brevis1 site
- Lucina menardi1 site
- Lyrischapa soudanense1 site
- Natica1 site
- Operculina canalifera1 site
- Plesiolampas paquieri1 site
- Plesiolampas saharae1 site
- Pseudoheligmus nigeriensis1 site
- Rawya pharaonis1 site
- Sigmesalia fasciata1 site
- Turritella aegyptiaca1 site
- Velates schmideli1 site
- Vicetia sowerbyi1 site
- Voluta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Chenopus (Maussenetia) dimorphospira, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Chenopus (Maussenetia) dimorphospira 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 Chenopus (Maussenetia) dimorphospira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Chenopus (Maussenetia) dimorphospira 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 itChenopus (Maussenetia) through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann and Pissarro 1909