Inopinatarcula acanthodes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
InopinatarculaPBDB
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 most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 17 of 17 occurrencesLate Cretaceous86–85 Mya — about 3 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 3 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 3 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 3 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86.2 Mya71.7 Mya

17 occurrences of Inopinatarcula acanthodes 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

17 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

5 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°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 acanthodes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Inopinatarcula acanthodes and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Inopinatarcula acanthodes, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 17 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

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No picture of Inopinatarcula acanthodes 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 acanthodes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Inopinatarcula acanthodes 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 itInopinatarcula through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Etheridge 1913)