Resatrix
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MeretricinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
36 occurrences of Resatrix 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
36 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
7 formations
- Atherfield Clay Formation · Lower Greensand Group17
- Sandgate Formation · Lower Greensand Group7
- Ferruginous Sands Formation · Lower Greensand Group3
- Folkestone Formation · Lower Greensand Group3
- Hythe Formation · Lower Greensand Group1
- Alisitos Formation1
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The named rock units Resatrix has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Resatrix and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Resatrix and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
426 taxa- Thetironia minor15 sites
- Parmicorbula striatula12 sites
- Deshayesites10 sites
- Eurotrigonia mantelli9 sites
- Cucullaea8 sites
- Panopea8 sites
- Tessarolax8 sites
- Toxaster fittoni8 sites
- Freiastarte7 sites
- Senis wharburtoni7 sites
- Venilicardia7 sites
- Aptolinter6 sites
- Modiolus aequalis6 sites
- Panopea (Myopsis) plicata6 sites
- Prodeshayesites6 sites
- Sphaera corrugata6 sites
- Anchura5 sites
- Anomia laevigata5 sites
- Entolium orbiculare5 sites
- Gervillella sublanceolata5 sites
- Gervillia5 sites
- Globularia sublaevigata5 sites
- Perissoptera robinaldina5 sites
- Pinna robinaldina5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Resatrix, 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
7 references- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand22
- The stratigraphy of the Atherfield Clay Formation (Lower Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) at the type and other localities in southern England8
- Geology of the Petersfield district, Hampshire2
- Geología de las áreas Ovalle y Peña Blanca, Región de Coquimbo Nos. 208-2091
- First Cretaceous (Albian) invertebrate fossil assemblage from Batavia Knoll, Perth Abyssal Plain, eastern Indian Ocean: taxonomy and paleoecological significance1
- The Aptian stratigraphy of the southern Tuarkyr (NW Turkmenistan, Central Asia)1
- Middle Cretaceous gastropoda from Punta China, Baja California, Mexico1
Each of the 36 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
Media content1
Picture of Resatrix
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMeretricinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Casey 1952