Cryptorhytis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FasciolariinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 61.66 Mya.
52 occurrences of Cryptorhytis 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
52 occurrences- Late Cretaceous69%
- Paleocene31%
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
12 formations
- Jagüel Formation · Malargüe Group17
- Roca Formation · Malargüe Group8
- Lopez de Bertodano Formation6
- Cotinguiba Formation4
- Ripley Formation3
- Pierre Shale Formation2
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The named rock units Cryptorhytis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cryptorhytis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cryptorhytis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
612 taxa- Pseudolimea10 sites
- Panopea clausa9 sites
- Bivalvia8 sites
- Mesocallista8 sites
- Camptonectes tutorae7 sites
- Disparilia6 sites
- Pycnodonte vesicularis6 sites
- Anthozoa5 sites
- Eunaticina5 sites
- Euspira5 sites
- Galeodea5 sites
- Gastropoda5 sites
- Linearis5 sites
- Panopea5 sites
- Rotularia5 sites
- Taioma5 sites
- Amberleya4 sites
- Anomia4 sites
- Aporrhais4 sites
- Cucullaea antarctica4 sites
- Echinoida4 sites
- Haumurigonia windhauseniana4 sites
- Lyriochlamys4 sites
- Reptilia4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Cryptorhytis, 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
13 references- Molluscs at the K/Pg boundary in Argentina: Extinction and recovery patterns. unpublished Ph.D. thesis26
- Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleoecology of Upper Cretaceous/Paleocene shelf-deltaic sediments of Seymour Island6
- Turonian inoceramids and biostratigraphy of the Sergipe Basin, northeastern Brazil: an integrated study of the Votorantim and Nassau quarries3
- The Red Bird Section of the Upper Cretaceous Pierre Shale in Wyoming3
- Metacommunity structural changes of Antarctic benthic invertebrates over the late Maastrichtian2
- Die geologische Entwicklung von Süd-Mozambique seit der Unterkreide und die Ammoniten-Fauna von Unterkreide und Cenoman2
- Mollusques fossiles du Crétacé de la Côte occidentale d'Afrique du Cameroun à l'Angola. III. - Conclusions stratigraphiques et paléontologiques2
- Die Oberkreide vom Mungofluß in Kamerun und ihre Fauna2
- The fauna of the Ripley formation on Coon creek, Tennessee2
- The Cenomanian-Coniacian of Sergipe Basin, Brazil1
- Cretaceous sedimentation and tectonism in the southeastern Kaiparowits region, Utah1
- Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations1
Each of the 52 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Cryptorhytis
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No 3D scan of Cryptorhytis 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 itFasciolariinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek 1876)