Cuspidaria (Cuspidaria)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CuspidariaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cuspidaria
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Cuspidaria
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cuspidaria
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 19 of 32 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 32 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 32 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 32 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 32 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 32 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 32 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 7 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 7 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–8.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.4–6.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.0–3.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.6–1.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences66 Mya3.6 Mya74 Mya1 Mya

32 occurrences of Cuspidaria (Cuspidaria) on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

32 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

14 formations

Prairie Bluff — 33.72°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 33.46°N, 88.79°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WCorsicana Marl — 31.75°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 30.94°N, 96.95°WCorsicana Marl — 30.44°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.34°N, 97.51°WCorsicana Marl — 29.63°N, 98.04°WBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.96°N, 85.45°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 85.72°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WPeedee — 33.99°N, 79.52°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WEscondido — 29.34°N, 98.89°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WLillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°EKattendijk — 51.25°N, 4.28°EGram — 55.28°N, 9.00°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°W

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The named rock units Cuspidaria (Cuspidaria) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

896 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Cuspidaria (Cuspidaria), 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

10 references

Each of the 32 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 content2

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Cuspidaria obesa · USNM:IZ:USNM 448494

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No picture of Cuspidaria (Cuspidaria) 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 Cuspidaria (Cuspidaria), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCuspidaria through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dall 1886