Pyropsis

Pyropsis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PyropsidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 182 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 152 of 182 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 29 of 182 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 182 occurrencesEocene102–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 2 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 4 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 4 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 3 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 4 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 6 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 6 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 6 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 6 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 19 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 37 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 37 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 19 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 6 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 7 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 6 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93.9 Mya48.07 Mya102 Mya36 Mya

182 occurrences of Pyropsis 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

182 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

54 formations

Prairie Bluff — 33.89°N, 88.96°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.72°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 33.52°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie 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 — 33.61°N, 88.65°WRipley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WMarshalltown — 39.78°N, 75.44°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.70°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WSevern — 39.33°N, 76.03°WMartinez — 38.00°N, 122.20°WMartinez — 38.00°N, 122.10°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.60°WCorsicana Marl — 33.51°N, 94.67°WCorsicana Marl — 33.15°N, 96.04°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.60°N, 98.03°WCorsicana Marl — 29.49°N, 98.19°WCorsicana Marl — 29.37°N, 98.78°WSanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.71°WSanta Susana — 34.24°N, 118.73°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.11°WCoffee Sand — 34.66°N, 88.57°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WRedding — 40.68°N, 122.02°WRedding — 40.54°N, 121.91°WRedding — 40.64°N, 122.06°WRedding — 40.64°N, 122.24°WRedding — 40.63°N, 121.97°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.35°N, 99.14°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.19°N, 100.30°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.87°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 110.88°WMancos Shale — 34.74°N, 108.84°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 106.90°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WVincentown — 39.93°N, 74.78°WChiwapa — 34.38°N, 88.98°WChiwapa — 34.25°N, 88.96°WEscondido — 28.71°N, 100.50°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WAguja — 29.83°N, 103.25°WKemp Clay — 29.42°N, 98.49°WKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WBlack Creek — 35.46°N, 77.68°WUmzamba — 31.10°S, 30.17°EUmzamba — 29.87°S, 31.02°EWangaloa — 46.26°S, 169.98°ELefipán — 42.67°S, 69.98°WTres Hermanos — 33.88°N, 106.75°WTres Hermanos — 34.44°N, 107.47°W

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The named rock units Pyropsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pyropsis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,279 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 161 sites for Pyropsis, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

45 references

Each of the 182 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. 33 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 Pyropsis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1860)