Inoceramus fragilis

Inoceramus fragilis

Henderson, Junius; Byron, J · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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 4.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 85.7 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 12 of 12 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93.9 Mya89.8 Mya101 Mya85.2 Mya

12 occurrences of Inoceramus fragilis 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

12 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

7 formations

Coleraine — 47.32°N, 93.28°WColeraine — 47.00°N, 93.00°WColeraine — 47.29°N, 93.43°WBlackstone — 52.36°N, 116.25°WBlackstone — 52.80°N, 116.81°WCarlile Shale — 42.52°N, 96.82°WMancos Shale — 38.77°N, 111.39°WFrontier — 42.83°N, 108.73°WBelle Fourche — 47.00°N, 107.88°WCarlile — 42.73°N, 96.89°W

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

Inoceramus fragilis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

78 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Inoceramus fragilis, 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

6 references

Each of the 12 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

Media content1

Picture of Inoceramus fragilis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Henderson, Junius; Byron, J
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itInoceramus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall and Meek 1855