Phelopteria salinaensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhelopteriaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriidae
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Pteriidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Pteriidae
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Phelopteria salinaensis on record, most of them in the Early 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
6 occurrences- Early 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
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The named rock units Phelopteria salinaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Phelopteria salinaensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Phelopteria salinaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Flaventia5 sites
- Praescabrotrigonia emoryi5 sites
- Trachycardium5 sites
- Corbula4 sites
- Drepanocheilus4 sites
- Linearis4 sites
- Modiolus4 sites
- Peilinia quadriplicata4 sites
- Protocardia4 sites
- Crassostrea3 sites
- Euspira3 sites
- Gervillia3 sites
- Ostreidae3 sites
- Turritella belviderei3 sites
- Amberleya2 sites
- Cyprimeria2 sites
- Engonoceras belviderense2 sites
- Nuculana2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Ostrea rugosa2 sites
- Pholadomya2 sites
- Turritella kansasensis2 sites
- Aphrodina1 site
- Breviarca1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Phelopteria salinaensis, 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
2 references- Paleoecology and Paleontology of the Lower Cretaceous Kiowa Formation, Kansas5
- Nearshore fauna of the Tucumcari Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Albian), Quay County, New Mexico1
Each of the 6 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. 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 Phelopteria salinaensis 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 Phelopteria salinaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Phelopteria salinaensis 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 itPhelopteria through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (White 1880)