Cuneopsis giganteus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CuneopsisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Unionida
Time the record covers
At least 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
2 occurrences of Cuneopsis giganteus 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
2 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
- Elrhaz Formation · Tegama Group1
- Irhazer Shales Formation · Irhazer Group1
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The named rock units Cuneopsis giganteus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cuneopsis giganteus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Cuneopsis giganteus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Araripesuchus wegeneri1 site
- Lepidotes1 site
- Lurdusaurus arenatus1 site
- Margaritifera (Margaritifera) rhazensis1 site
- Margaritifera (Pseudunio) saharica1 site
- Margaritifera (Pseudunio) valdensis1 site
- Nigersaurus taqueti1 site
- Ouranosaurus nigeriensis1 site
- Teneremys lapparenti1 site
- Testudinata1 site
- Trigonioides1 site
- Unionidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cuneopsis giganteus, 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
2 references- Étude paléontologique de Lamellibranches limniques récoltés dans le Crétacé inférieur du Niger (Afrique) [Paleontological study of the limnic lamellibranchs recovered in the Lower Cretaceous of Niger (Africa)]1
- Une Naïade géante (Lamellibranche limnique) dans le “Continental intercalaire” du Niger (Sahara méridional) [A giant naiad (limnic lamellibranch) in the “Continental Intercalaire” of Niger (southern Sahara) ]1
Each of the 2 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. 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 content0
No picture of Cuneopsis giganteus 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 Cuneopsis giganteus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cuneopsis giganteus 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 itCuneopsis through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mongin 1963