Cryptolucina

No picture of Cryptolucina 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 Cryptolucina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LucinidaePBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 9 of 13 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 13 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 13 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 3 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 6 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences121.4 Mya37.71 Mya128 Mya32 Mya

13 occurrences of Cryptolucina on record, most of them in the Early 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

13 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

2 formations

Kuhnpasset — 74.50°N, 20.35°WHumptulips — 47.27°N, 123.56°WHumptulips — 47.25°N, 123.82°W

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The named rock units Cryptolucina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cryptolucina and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Cryptolucina and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Cryptolucina, 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

4 references

Each of the 13 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Cryptolucina 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 Cryptolucina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cryptolucina 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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What may have been alongside itLucinidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Saul et al. 1996