Costacopluma texana
No picture of Costacopluma texana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Costacopluma texana, 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 most 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 61.66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Costacopluma texana 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
1 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
1 formation
- Wills Point Formation · Midway Group1
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The named rock units Costacopluma texana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Costacopluma texana and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Costacopluma texana and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Caloxanthus1 site
- Hoploparia1 site
- Hoploparia johnsoni1 site
- Hyphalocarcinus americana1 site
- Kierionopsis nodosa1 site
- Linuparus wilcoxensis1 site
- Paguroidea1 site
- Paraverrucoides alabamensis1 site
- Pithonoton cardwelli1 site
- Prehepatus1 site
- Raninoides bournei1 site
- Raninoides treldenaesensis1 site
- Viapinnixa mexiaensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Costacopluma texana, 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 1 occurrence 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
Media content0
No picture of Costacopluma texana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Costacopluma texana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itCostacopluma through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Armstrong et al. 2009