Retroceramus haasti

No picture of Retroceramus haasti 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 Retroceramus haasti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RetroceramusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 9.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 159 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 23 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 22 of 23 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 23 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 23 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 23 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 1 occurrence160–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 4 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 8 occurrences150–147 Mya — about 4 occurrences147–144 Mya — about 3 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–130 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159 Mya – 149.2 Mya163 Mya64 Mya

23 occurrences of Retroceramus haasti on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

23 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

4 formations

Aucella Limestone — 3.75°S, 126.46°EAucella Limestone — 3.14°S, 129.55°EAucella Limestone — 3.30°S, 129.57°EAblation Point — 70.75°S, 68.50°WAnchorage — 62.60°S, 61.17°WMaril — 5.85°S, 144.88°E

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The named rock units Retroceramus haasti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Retroceramus haasti and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Retroceramus haasti and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

26 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Retroceramus haasti, 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

11 references

Each of the 23 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 content0

No picture of Retroceramus haasti 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 Retroceramus haasti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Retroceramus haasti 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 itRetroceramus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hochstetter 1863)