Cuna

Cuna

Blair Patullo (Museum Victoria) · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CondylocardiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Condylocardiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Condylocardiidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Condylocardiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 69 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 74 of 96 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 96 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 96 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 96 occurrencesMiocene — about 8 of 96 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 96 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 96 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–71 Mya — about 13 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 32 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 25 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–45 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–8.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences72.2 Mya2.58 Mya85 Mya0 Mya

96 occurrences of Cuna on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

96 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

20 formations

Providence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.80°N, 85.00°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 85.72°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WDry Creek Sands — 34.70°S, 138.62°EDry Creek Sands — 34.89°S, 138.56°EPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.00°WPeedee — 33.90°N, 79.43°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°EReklaw — 30.00°N, 97.25°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WChiwapa — 34.36°N, 88.92°WSandy Hook — 40.40°N, 74.12°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WRipley — 32.05°N, 86.78°WVarswater — 32.97°S, 18.15°ETangahoe — 39.61°S, 174.25°EWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WRecklaw — 31.49°N, 95.74°W

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The named rock units Cuna has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cuna and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cuna and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,137 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 85 sites for Cuna, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

17 references

Each of the 96 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. 5 further references are 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 Cuna

Credit
Blair Patullo (Museum Victoria)
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cuna 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 itCondylocardiidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hedley 1902