Guanacastea jamaicensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GuanacasteaPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 66 Mya.
34 occurrences of Guanacastea jamaicensis 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
34 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Guanacastea jamaicensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Guanacastea jamaicensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Guanacastea jamaicensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Agriopleura1 site
- Ambigostrea villei1 site
- Aphrodina1 site
- Bayleia1 site
- Biradiolites1 site
- Biradiolites fissicostatus1 site
- Caprinidae1 site
- Cidaroida1 site
- Codiopsis1 site
- Corbula1 site
- Globator1 site
- Hippuritella1 site
- Hippurites1 site
- Hippurites matheroni praecanaliculatus1 site
- Micraster1 site
- Monopleura1 site
- Perucardia brueggeni1 site
- Plagioptychus1 site
- Plagioptychus aguilloni1 site
- Porosoma1 site
- Praeradiolites1 site
- Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia)1 site
- Radiolites1 site
- Radiolites macroplicatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Guanacastea jamaicensis, 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
7 references- Stratigraphy of the Guinea Corn Formation (Upper Cretaceous) at its type locality in the Rio Minho between Grantham and Guinea Corn, northern Clarendon, Jamaica16
- Late Maastrichtian rudist and coral assemblages from the Central Inlier, Jamaica: towards an event stratigraphy for shallow-water Caribbean limestones9
- Palaeoecology of corals and rudists in mixed volcaniclastic carbonate small-scale rhythms (Upper Cretaceous, Jamaica)4
- Paleoecology of the Maastrichtian rudist Biradiolites in Jamaica2
- Revision of the Upper Cretaceous rudists from northwestern Peru1
- Cretaceous rudists of Guatemala1
- Coniacian-Maastrichtian of the Tremp Area (South Central Pyrenees)1
Each of the 34 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 Guanacastea jamaicensis 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 Guanacastea jamaicensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Guanacastea jamaicensis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGuanacastea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Trechmann 1924)