Durania cornupastoris
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DuraniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hippuritida
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.
48 occurrences of Durania cornupastoris 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
48 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
11 formations
- Wadi As Sir Limestone Formation3
- Bourg-des-Maisons Formation2
- Wata Formation2
- middle Abu Roash Formation2
- Aruma Formation2
- Picofrentes Formation2
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The named rock units Durania cornupastoris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Durania cornupastoris and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Durania cornupastoris and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
44 taxa- Radiolites7 sites
- Biradiolites5 sites
- Hippurites5 sites
- Praeradiolites4 sites
- Biradiolites lumbricalis2 sites
- Durania gaensis2 sites
- Eodictyoptychus2 sites
- Sphaerulites2 sites
- Vaccinites2 sites
- Acteonella1 site
- Arca1 site
- Biradiolites angulosus1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Ceriopora1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Corallinaceae1 site
- Cremnoceramus1 site
- Cucullaea1 site
- Dictyoptychus morgani1 site
- Distefanella1 site
- Echinidae1 site
- Hemitissotia alpina1 site
- Hippurites resectus1 site
- Inoceramus (Inoceramus) inaequivalvis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Durania cornupastoris, 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
22 references- Development of rudist lithosomes in the Coniacian-Lower Campanian carbonate shelves of central-southern Italy: high-energy vs low-energy settings15
- The Turonian rudist-bearing carbonate platforms of the Charentes and Perigord areas, Aquitaine Basin (France)4
- The Turonian–Campanian rudist bivalve succession in the Central Iberian Basin3
- Cenomanian–Turonian rudist (bivalvia) lithosomes from NW of Jordan3
- Rudist facies distribution in the late Cretaceous of Cilento and western Basilicata (southern Italy)3
- New record of Durania cornupastoris (rudist) from the Campanian of the Aruma Formation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Description and biogeographic remarks2
- Sedimentary processes and biofacies of Late Cretaceous low-energy carbonate ramp systems (southern Italy)2
- Upper Cretaceous rudists distribution in the Mediterranean Tethys: comparison between platforms from Spain and South Central Italy2
- Durania cornupastoris rudist from the Turonian of El-Hassana Dome (Abu Roash area), Egypt: Systematic palaeontology and palaeoecology1
- Paucispecific macroinvertebrate communities in the Upper Cretaceous of El Hassana Dome (Abu Roash, Egypt): Environmental controls vs adaptive strategies1
- Chemostratigraphy of the Cenomanian-Turonian shallow-water carbonate: new correlation for the rudist levels from north Sinai, Egypt1
- Carbon and oxygen stable isotopes of selected Cenomanian and Turonian rudists from Egypt and Czech Republic, and a note on changes in rudist diversity1
Each of the 48 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. 10 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 Durania cornupastoris
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Durania cornupastoris 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 itDurania through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Des Moulins 1826)