Fissurella bipunctata

Fissurella bipunctata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FissurellaPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Fissurellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Fissurellidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Fissurellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 132.6 Mya and 121.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly Cretaceous133–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences130–130 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences128–128 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences124–124 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences133.1 Mya120.9 Mya

1 occurrence of Fissurella bipunctata on record, most of them in the Early 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

1 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

1 formation

Stony Creek — 40.17°N, 122.69°W

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

Fissurella bipunctata and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Fissurella bipunctata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Fissurella bipunctata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Fissurella bipunctata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Fissurella bipunctata 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 itFissurella through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stanton 1895