Morea
No picture of Morea was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Morea itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Morea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MoreinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
83 occurrences of Morea 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
83 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
19 formations
- Ripley Formation · Selma Group23
- Nacatoch Sand Formation10
- Prairie Bluff Formation8
- Providence Formation8
- Severn Formation6
- Corsicana Marl Formation6
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The named rock units Morea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Morea and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Morea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
960 taxa- Euspira rectilabrum40 sites
- Turritella trilira39 sites
- Nuculana34 sites
- Cymbophora32 sites
- Paladmete cancellaria30 sites
- Turritella vertebroides29 sites
- Anomia argentaria28 sites
- Veniella conradi27 sites
- Cyprimeria26 sites
- Syncyclonema25 sites
- Bellifusus23 sites
- Cubitostrea tecticosta23 sites
- Gyrodes (Sohlella) spillmani23 sites
- Linearis23 sites
- Corbula22 sites
- Crassatella vadosa22 sites
- Drilluta22 sites
- Liopistha protexta22 sites
- Nucula percrassa22 sites
- Turritella22 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata21 sites
- Ringicula (Ringicula) pulchella21 sites
- Vertebrata21 sites
- Caestocorbula (Caestocorbula) crassaplica20 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Morea, 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
13 references- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain19
- Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations19
- The larger invertebrate fossils of the Navarro group of Texas11
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf9
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain7
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals6
- Changes in Late Cretaceous - early Tertiary benthic marine assemblages: analyses from the North American coastal plain shallow-shelf3
- Gastropods from the coffee Sand (Upper Cretaceous) of Mississippi3
- The fauna of the Ripley formation on Coon creek, Tennessee2
- Brachylepas Woodward and Virgiscalpellum Withers (Cirripedia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Arkansas1
- The Black Creek-Peedee formational contact (Upper Cretaceous) in the Cape Fear river region of North Carolina1
- Stratigraphy of the outcropping post-Magothy Upper Cretaceous formations in Southern New Jersey an Northern Delmarva peninsula, Delaware and Maryland1
Each of the 83 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. 1 further reference is 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
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No picture of Morea was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Morea itself, so it was not used.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Morea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itMoreinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1860