Elliptio (Plesielliptio)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ElliptioPBDB
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 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 56 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 11 of 19 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 8 of 19 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 19 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–63 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72.2 Mya59.24 Mya84.2 Mya55.4 Mya

19 occurrences of Elliptio (Plesielliptio) 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

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

9 formations

Ravenscrag — 49.70°N, 109.00°WRavenscrag — 49.57°N, 108.81°WRavenscrag — 49.40°N, 105.63°WRavenscrag — 49.13°N, 104.88°WRavenscrag — 49.10°N, 102.88°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 106.95°WNorth Horn — 39.00°N, 111.00°WNorth Horn — 39.10°N, 111.80°WFort Crittenden — 31.70°N, 110.85°WCorral de Enmedio — 31.15°N, 109.88°WCorral de Enmedio — 31.13°N, 109.82°WSt. Mary River — 49.91°N, 112.99°WSentinel Butte — 47.63°N, 103.79°WWahweap — 37.60°N, 111.60°WScollard — 52.33°N, 113.12°W

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The named rock units Elliptio (Plesielliptio) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elliptio (Plesielliptio) and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Elliptio (Plesielliptio) and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

92 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Elliptio (Plesielliptio), 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 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

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

No 3D scan of Elliptio (Plesielliptio) 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 itElliptio through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Russell 1934)