Cultellus brevis

Cultellus brevis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CultellusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pharidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Pharidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pharidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 43 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 23.04 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 1 occurrencePaleocene — about 0 of 1 occurrencePaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 1 occurrenceOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 1 occurrence67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66.9 Mya22.2 Mya

1 occurrence of Cultellus brevis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

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.

Cultellus brevis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cultellus brevis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cultellus brevis, 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 reference

Each 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 content1

Picture of Cultellus brevis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Cultellus brevis 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCultellus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nagao 1928