Inopinatarcula

No picture of Inopinatarcula was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Inopinatarcula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
InopinatarculidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 19 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 17 of 19 occurrencesLate Cretaceous114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 10 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 4 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100.5 Mya83.6 Mya114 Mya71.4 Mya

19 occurrences of Inopinatarcula 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

19 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

6 formations

Gingin — 31.34°S, 115.90°EGingin — 31.35°S, 115.90°EGingin — 30.69°S, 115.70°EGingin — 30.67°S, 115.80°ETe Wera Sandstone — 38.41°S, 177.31°EGingin Chalk — 31.35°S, 115.90°EToolonga Calcilutite — 27.70°S, 114.21°EToolonga Chalk — 27.67°S, 114.17°EToolonga — 25.97°S, 114.28°E

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

Inopinatarcula and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Inopinatarcula and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

42 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Inopinatarcula, 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

Each of the 19 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

Media content0

No picture of Inopinatarcula was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Inopinatarcula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Inopinatarcula was found in Sketchfab.

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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.