Inoceramus prefragilis
No picture of Inoceramus prefragilis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Inoceramus prefragilis itself, so it was not used. 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 Inoceramus prefragilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Inoceramus prefragilis 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
14 occurrencesThese 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
8 formations
- Woodbine Formation4
- Hilo Formation · Villeta Group3
- Shaftesbury Formation · Colorado Group2
- Kaskapau Formation · Smoky Group1
- Graneros Shale Formation1
- Cody Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Inoceramus prefragilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Inoceramus prefragilis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Inoceramus prefragilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Dunveganoceras (Plesiacanthoceras) wyomingense3 sites
- Dunveganoceras pondi3 sites
- Posidonioceramus dunveganensis3 sites
- Borissjakoceras2 sites
- Calycoceras (Proeucalycoceras) canitaurinum2 sites
- Idiohamites bispinosus2 sites
- Nonacteonina tensa2 sites
- Sanoarca grandis2 sites
- Tarrantoceras cuspidum2 sites
- Acanthoceratinae1 site
- Acila (Truncacila)1 site
- Aliofusus1 site
- Alzadites alzadensis1 site
- Anchura1 site
- Arctica murrayensis1 site
- Borissiakoceras orbiculatum1 site
- Cadulus1 site
- Callistina1 site
- Caryocorbula1 site
- Confusiscala1 site
- Crassatella1 site
- Cylichna1 site
- Cymbophora1 site
- Cyprimeria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Inoceramus prefragilis, 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- Larger invertebrate fossils of the Woodbine formation (Cenomanian) of Texas4
- Chronology, relative sea-level history and a new sequence stratigraphic model for basinal Cretaceous facies of Colombia3
- Subspecies kluges: a pointless taxonomic database to create species opinions for subspecies that then will be over-ruled and allow subspecies occurrences to be recognized as the subspecies rather than the parent species2
- Tarrantoceras Stephenson and related ammonoid genera from Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) rocks in Texas and the western interior of the United States2
- Some Middle Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) acanthoceratid ammonites from the Western Interior of the United States1
- Molluscan fossil record from the northeastern part of the Upper Cretaceous seaway, Western Interior1
- Foraminifera of the Cenomanian Dunveganoceras Zone of the Peace River area of western Canada1
Each of the 14 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
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Shellie Luallin
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Inoceramus prefragilis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Inoceramus prefragilis itself, so it was not used.
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 Inoceramus prefragilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itInoceramus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stephenson 1952