Paleopsephaea mutabilis
No picture of Paleopsephaea mutabilis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Paleopsephaea mutabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaleopsephaeaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- 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.
9 occurrences of Paleopsephaea mutabilis 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
9 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
2 formations
- Ripley Formation · Selma Group8
- Mexcala Formation1
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The named rock units Paleopsephaea mutabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paleopsephaea mutabilis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Paleopsephaea mutabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
484 taxa- Bellifusus curvicostatus7 sites
- Euspira rectilabrum7 sites
- Graciliala calcaris7 sites
- Laxispira lumbricalis7 sites
- Morea marylandica7 sites
- Paladmete cancellaria7 sites
- Turritella trilira7 sites
- Turritella vertebroides7 sites
- Amuletum6 sites
- Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus) americanus6 sites
- Drilluta distans6 sites
- Fulgerca attenuata6 sites
- Gyrodes supraplicatus6 sites
- Lupira pyriformis6 sites
- Mataxa elegans6 sites
- Paladmete gardnerae6 sites
- Sargana stantoni6 sites
- Sohliina liratus6 sites
- Amuletum (Amuletum) dumasensis5 sites
- Anchura abrupta5 sites
- Beretra gracilis5 sites
- Buccinopsis solida5 sites
- Cerithium weeksi5 sites
- Creonella subangulata5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Paleopsephaea mutabilis, 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
4 references- Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations5
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals2
- Early Maastrictian mollusca from the Mexcala formation of the state of Guererro, southern Mexico1
- The fauna of the Ripley formation on Coon creek, Tennessee1
Each of the 9 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Paleopsephaea mutabilis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Paleopsephaea mutabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paleopsephaea mutabilis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPaleopsephaea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wade 1926