Concinnithyris obesa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ConcinnithyrisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Gibbithyrididae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Gibbithyrididae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Gibbithyrididae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 6.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 89.8 Mya.
7 occurrences of Concinnithyris obesa 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
7 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
3 formations
- Lower Chalk Formation2
- Ambarimaninga Formation1
- West Melbury Marly Chalk Formation · Grey Chalk Group1
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The named rock units Concinnithyris obesa 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.
Concinnithyris obesa and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Concinnithyris obesa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
198 taxa- Terebratula5 sites
- Ammonoceratites3 sites
- Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum3 sites
- Douvilleiceras inaequinodum3 sites
- Douvilleiceras mammillatum3 sites
- Holaster3 sites
- Metahamites3 sites
- Anagaudryceras2 sites
- Argonauticeras belliseptatum2 sites
- Calycoceras2 sites
- Cymatoceras sakalavum2 sites
- Gaudryceras2 sites
- Gyrostrea besairiei2 sites
- Hemiaster2 sites
- Modiolatus rectus2 sites
- Neithea quinquecostata2 sites
- Neosilesites2 sites
- Panopea2 sites
- Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) velledae2 sites
- Protanisoceras2 sites
- Puzosia2 sites
- Rhynchonella2 sites
- Roberticeras hourcqi2 sites
- Schloenbachia varians2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Concinnithyris obesa, 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
5 references- Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires3
- Les Goniasteridae (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) jurassiques et crétacés de France. Taphonomie, systématique, biostratigraphie, paléobiogéographie, évolution.1
- Cenomanian brachiopods from the Lower Chalk of Britain and northern Europe1
- A correlation of the uppermost Albian and the Cenomanian of South-West England1
- On the stratigraphical position of Acanthopholis horridus (Huxley)1
Each of the 7 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 Concinnithyris obesa
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- 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 itConcinnithyris through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1823)