Inoceramus (Inoceramus)

Inoceramus (Inoceramus)

Minor, Keith · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
InoceramusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Inoceramus
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Inoceramus
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Inoceramus
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 198 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 198 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 198 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 194 of 198 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 198 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences164–160 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 36 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 61 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 33 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 12 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 3 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 10 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 27 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 11 occurrences161.5 Mya72.2 Mya167 Mya64 Mya

198 occurrences of Inoceramus (Inoceramus) 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

198 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

37 formations

Prairie Bluff — 33.93°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.50°N, 88.81°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.73°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 32.73°N, 88.30°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.16°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.03°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 86.79°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.99°N, 85.92°WMancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 36.14°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 36.12°N, 109.91°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 110.88°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WMancos Shale — 35.96°N, 110.89°WMancos Shale — 36.55°N, 110.48°WMancos Shale — 32.76°N, 108.57°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.28°N, 104.72°WGreenhorn Limestone — 33.53°N, 106.22°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.93°N, 105.28°WTropic Shale — 37.07°N, 111.62°WTropic Shale — 37.29°N, 112.69°WProvidence — 31.86°N, 85.95°WProvidence — 31.77°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 85.72°WHolywell Nodular Chalk — 51.25°N, 0.15°WHolywell Nodular Chalk — 50.75°N, 2.95°WPeedee — 33.91°N, 79.45°WPeedee — 33.83°N, 79.25°WEscondido — 28.76°N, 100.26°WEscondido — 28.71°N, 100.71°WEscondido — 28.52°N, 100.29°WBranderfleck — 47.67°N, 12.17°EHaida — 53.23°N, 132.00°WHaida — 53.05°N, 131.78°WBrochterbeck — 52.22°N, 7.75°EBrochterbeck — 52.10°N, 8.30°EChiwapa — 34.60°N, 88.95°WChiwapa — 34.18°N, 88.96°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WWhisky Bay — 64.17°S, 57.75°WWhisky Bay — 64.07°S, 58.42°WKajisako — 33.75°N, 133.97°ECotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WGreenhorn — 37.47°N, 104.11°WGreenhorn — 32.76°N, 108.67°WNeuburger Weiß — 48.73°N, 11.18°EOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WCorsicana Marl — 30.20°N, 97.61°WShimonada Siltstone and Sandstone & Kitaama Sandstone and Shale — 34.50°N, 135.00°EMikasa Sandstone — 43.03°N, 141.95°EMitarai — 36.03°N, 136.93°EInukai — 33.08°N, 131.33°E

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The named rock units Inoceramus (Inoceramus) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Inoceramus (Inoceramus) and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

837 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 182 sites for Inoceramus (Inoceramus), 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

39 references

Each of the 198 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. 27 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 content3

Picture of Inoceramus (Inoceramus)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Minor, Keith
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Inoceramus sp. · ypm:ip:YPM IP 614951

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1814