Dentonia
No picture of Dentonia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Dentonia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CorbiculidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Corbiculidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Corbiculidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Corbiculidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Corbiculidae
Time the record covers
At least 45 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
19 occurrences of Dentonia 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
19 occurrences- Late Cretaceous79%
- Paleocene16%
- Eocene5%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Dentonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dentonia and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Dentonia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
139 taxa- Protarca12 sites
- Brachidontes11 sites
- Ostrea soleniscus11 sites
- Anomia10 sites
- Voysa10 sites
- Macrocerithium tramitense9 sites
- Cymbophora8 sites
- Hemicerithium7 sites
- Priscomactra7 sites
- Serpula7 sites
- Exogyra columbella6 sites
- Sanoarca grandis6 sites
- Turritella6 sites
- Aguileria5 sites
- Euspira5 sites
- Gymnentome5 sites
- Senis5 sites
- Caryocorbula4 sites
- Corbula4 sites
- Levicerithium breviforme4 sites
- Nerita ornata4 sites
- Phelopteria dalli4 sites
- Ursirivus4 sites
- Cliona3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Dentonia, 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
2 references- Larger invertebrate fossils of the Woodbine formation (Cenomanian) of Texas15
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.4
Each of the 19 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 Dentonia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Dentonia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dentonia 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 itCorbiculidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stephenson 1953