Pyropsis californica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PyropsisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 89.8 Mya and 85.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Pyropsis californica 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
4 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pyropsis californica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pyropsis californica and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pyropsis californica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Perissitys cretacea3 sites
- Plectocion curvirostris3 sites
- Paosia ursula2 sites
- Zinsitys meisteri2 sites
- Atira popenoei1 site
- Baculites boulei1 site
- Baculites schenki1 site
- Barnea (Anchomasa) saulae1 site
- Biplica heteroplicata1 site
- Califadesma aspris1 site
- Christitys delta1 site
- Damesites damesi intermedius1 site
- Echinimathilda querna1 site
- Excorbula parkyi1 site
- Gyrodes (Sohlella) quercus1 site
- Micasarcina vallis1 site
- Peroniceras1 site
- Peroniceras shastense1 site
- Prionocyclus californicus1 site
- Pseudocymia aitha1 site
- Pyktes aspris1 site
- Volutoderma querna1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pyropsis californica, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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
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No picture of Pyropsis californica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pyropsis californica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pyropsis californica was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itPyropsis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Squires 2011