Gourretia aquilae
No picture of Gourretia aquilae 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 Gourretia aquilae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GourretiaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Axiidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Axiidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 85.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Gourretia aquilae 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
5 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Gourretia aquilae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gourretia aquilae and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Gourretia aquilae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Cenomanocarcinus vanstraeleni2 sites
- Acanthomorphata1 site
- Baculites yokoyamai1 site
- Cimolichthyoidei1 site
- Cremnoceramus crassus inconstans1 site
- Cremnoceramus deformis deformis1 site
- Cremnoceramus deformis erectus1 site
- Cremnoceramus waltersdorfensis waltersdorfensis1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Dicarinella1 site
- Didymotis1 site
- Elasmobranchii1 site
- Enchodontoidei1 site
- Ferroranina dichrous1 site
- Forresteria1 site
- Forresteria (Forresteria) alluaudi1 site
- Gaudryceras mite1 site
- Heterohelix1 site
- Ichthyodectiformes1 site
- Marginotruncana1 site
- Mosasauridae1 site
- Muzquizopteryx1 site
- Muzquizopteryx coahuilensis1 site
- Mytiloides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Gourretia aquilae, 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- Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain3
- Upper Cretaceous Crustacea from Mexico and Colombia: similar faunas and environments during Turonian times2
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Gourretia aquilae 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 Gourretia aquilae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gourretia aquilae 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 itGourretia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rathbun 1935)