Dentalium leve
No picture of Dentalium leve was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Dentalium leve, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DentaliumPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Dentaliida
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Dentaliida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Dentaliida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Scaphopoda
Time the record covers
At most 35 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
102 occurrences of Dentalium leve 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
102 occurrences- Late 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
12 formations
- Corsicana Marl Formation39
- Providence Formation21
- Escondido Formation12
- Severn Formation11
- Corsicana Formation7
- Owl Creek Formation3
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The named rock units Dentalium leve has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dentalium leve and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Dentalium leve and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
476 taxa- Striarca87 sites
- Nuculana77 sites
- Cymbophora74 sites
- Syncyclonema59 sites
- Cubitostrea tecticosta56 sites
- Corbula54 sites
- Anomia argentaria52 sites
- Crenella serica50 sites
- Vertebrata49 sites
- Turritella bilira44 sites
- Euspira rectilabrum42 sites
- Micrabacia40 sites
- Vetericardiella40 sites
- Caestocorbula (Caestocorbula) crassaplica38 sites
- Nemodon eufaulensis38 sites
- Malletia37 sites
- Nucula percrassa37 sites
- Nymphalucina linearia37 sites
- Corbula monmouthensis36 sites
- Turritella trilira36 sites
- Hamulus onyx35 sites
- Paladmete cancellaria35 sites
- Trachycardium eufaulensis35 sites
- Baculites34 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 101 sites for Dentalium leve, 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
6 references- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain43
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf30
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain12
- Patterns of molluscan extinction and recovery across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in east Texas; report on new outcrops9
- Sedimentology and extinction patterns across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary interval in East Texas7
- The larger invertebrate fossils of the Navarro group of Texas1
Each of the 102 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 Dentalium leve was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Dentalium leve, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dentalium leve was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itDentalium through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stephenson 1923