Neithea quinquecostata

Neithea quinquecostata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NeitheaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pectinoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Neitheidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 25 of 115 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 89 of 115 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 115 occurrencesPaleocene123–121 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–116 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 4 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 3 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 3 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 3 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 3 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 3 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 4 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 4 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 4 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 5 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 7 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 7 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 7 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 7 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 7 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 9 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 10 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 10 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119.57 Mya66 Mya123 Mya60 Mya

115 occurrences of Neithea quinquecostata 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

115 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

34 formations

Prairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 87.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.08°N, 87.03°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.13°N, 87.40°WMarshalltown — 39.78°N, 75.44°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.70°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMarshalltown — 39.81°N, 75.16°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.35°N, 99.14°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.44°N, 98.86°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.18°N, 100.03°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.19°N, 100.30°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.08°WFolkestone — 51.27°N, 0.20°EFolkestone — 51.27°N, 0.08°EMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.72°WMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°WMerchantville — 40.14°N, 74.72°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WRipley — 32.15°N, 87.39°WHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°EKarai — 11.21°N, 78.98°EDemopolis — 35.23°N, 88.40°WDemopolis — 32.52°N, 87.84°WEutaw — 32.72°N, 87.80°WEutaw — 32.77°N, 87.87°WMaastricht — 51.00°N, 6.00°ESandgate — 51.35°N, 2.08°WMunday’s Hill Phosphatic Sandstone — 51.92°N, 0.67°WPecan Gap Chalk — 29.44°N, 98.67°WKhatiyah — 25.90°N, 56.07°EMishrif — 25.90°N, 56.07°EHolywell Nodular Chalk — 51.25°N, 0.15°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WCalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°EAmba Aradam — 9.13°N, 41.83°EConglomérats de Bargy — 46.02°N, 6.46°EAhlen — 51.83°N, 7.83°E

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The named rock units Neithea quinquecostata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neithea quinquecostata and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Neithea quinquecostata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,631 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 111 sites for Neithea quinquecostata, 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

38 references

Each of the 115 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. 26 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

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Picture of Neithea quinquecostata

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No 3D scan of Neithea quinquecostata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1814)