Mitrocaprina

Mitrocaprina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlagioptychidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hippuritida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hippuritida

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 38 of 38 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 38 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83.6 Mya72.2 Mya86.2 Mya65.5 Mya

38 occurrences of Mitrocaprina 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

38 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

13 formations

Habana — 22.00°N, 79.50°WEl Viejo — 10.60°N, 85.64°WEl Viejo — 10.21°N, 85.11°WEl Viejo — 10.39°N, 85.43°WCiolo Limestone — 39.84°N, 18.39°ECiolo Limestone — 39.86°N, 18.39°EAngostura — 16.73°N, 93.10°WPiragua — 21.48°N, 77.83°WVrbovac Beds — 43.80°N, 22.08°ECesarea Limestone — 40.05°N, 18.41°EGuinea Corn — 18.15°N, 77.40°WMount Peace — 18.38°N, 78.13°WPucisca — 43.17°N, 16.45°ECardenas — 22.18°N, 100.95°WCárdenas — 21.98°N, 99.63°WSuchiapa — 16.25°N, 92.64°W

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The named rock units Mitrocaprina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mitrocaprina and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

240 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Mitrocaprina, 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

24 references

Each of the 38 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. 12 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 content1

Picture of Mitrocaprina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
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 itPlagioptychidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boehm 1895