Costacopluma grayi
No picture of Costacopluma grayi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Costacopluma grayi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CostacoplumaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Retroplumoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 41.03 Mya.
3 occurrences of Costacopluma grayi on record. 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- Late Cretaceous33%
- Paleocene33%
- Eocene33%
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
3 formations
- Clayton Formation · Midway Group1
- Owl Creek Formation1
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Costacopluma grayi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Branchiocarcinus1 site
- Callianassa zeta1 site
- Ceratopsidae1 site
- Crassatella1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Discoscaphites iris1 site
- Eubaculites carinatus1 site
- Eufistulana1 site
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata1 site
- Giulianolyreidus johnsoni1 site
- Idonearca capax1 site
- Ischyodus1 site
- Linearis1 site
- Liopistha protexta1 site
- Mesostylus mortoni1 site
- Mosasaurus hoffmannii1 site
- Palaeoxanthopsis1 site
- Peritresius ornatus1 site
- Pinna1 site
- Pterotrigonia1 site
- Pycnodonte vesicularis1 site
- Squalicorax pristodontus1 site
- Stevea martini1 site
- Striaticostatum sparsum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Costacopluma grayi, 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- The first reported ceratopsid dinosaur from eastern North America (Owl Creek Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Mississippi, USA)1
- Crabs (Decapoda, Brachyura) from the lower Paleocene of Alabama, USA1
- First report of Costacopluma Collins and Morris, 1975 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Retroplumidae) from the Eocene of Alabama, U.S.A.1
Each 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. 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 Costacopluma grayi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Costacopluma grayi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Costacopluma grayi 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Feldmann and Portell 2007