Strepsidura gracilis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StrepsiduraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
4 occurrences of Strepsidura gracilis 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Strepsidura gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Strepsidura gracilis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Strepsidura gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Pseudocucullaea lens4 sites
- Trigonarca camerunensis4 sites
- Bizarrus incertus3 sites
- Gymnarus fraasi3 sites
- Turritella nodosa3 sites
- Volutilithes guillemaini3 sites
- Volutomorpha horrida3 sites
- Volutomorpha similis3 sites
- Cardita beaumonti2 sites
- Cataceramus bantu2 sites
- Chenopus neubaueri2 sites
- Fusus climacodes2 sites
- Granocardium kruschi2 sites
- Helicaulax latealata2 sites
- Inoperna flagellifera2 sites
- Pachydiscus stallauensis2 sites
- Plicatula decipiens2 sites
- Plicatula locardi2 sites
- Pugnellus2 sites
- Turritella alternans2 sites
- Turritella harborti2 sites
- Volutilithes pseudocostata2 sites
- Acteonella1 site
- Agelasina plenodonta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Strepsidura gracilis, 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
3 references- Nouvelles données sur les Mollusques et autres macro-organismes campaniens de Sikoum (Centre-Est du sous bassin de Douala-Cameroun): intérêts bio-chronologiques et paléo-écologiques2
- The stratigraphy of the southern Cameroons1
- Die Oberkreide vom Mungofluß in Kamerun und ihre Fauna1
Each 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. 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 Strepsidura gracilis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Strepsidura gracilis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 itStrepsidura through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Riedel 1933