Tenuipteria fibrosa
No picture of Tenuipteria fibrosa 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 Tenuipteria fibrosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TenuipteriaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Tenuipteria fibrosa 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
10 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
3 formations
- Pierre Shale Formation · Montana Group5
- Eastend Formation3
- Fox Hills Formation2
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The named rock units Tenuipteria fibrosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tenuipteria fibrosa and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Tenuipteria fibrosa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Inoceramus7 sites
- Nucula planomarginata7 sites
- Discoscaphites6 sites
- Oxytoma (Hypoxytoma) nebrascana6 sites
- Cucullaea nebrascensis5 sites
- Cymbophora warrenana5 sites
- Protocardia subquadrata5 sites
- Anomia4 sites
- Nucula cancellata4 sites
- Phelopteria linguaeformis4 sites
- Acanthoscaphites3 sites
- Diploconcha3 sites
- Ellipsoscapha3 sites
- Graphidula3 sites
- Hoploscaphites nicolletii3 sites
- Modiolus meeki3 sites
- Nuculana3 sites
- Actinosepia canadensis2 sites
- Baculites2 sites
- Baculites clinolobatus2 sites
- Baculites grandis2 sites
- Belemnitella bulbosa2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Corbula2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Tenuipteria fibrosa, 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- The Red Bird Section of the Upper Cretaceous Pierre Shale in Wyoming5
- Geology of the Southern Alberta Plains. Part II. Paleontology of the marine formations of the Montana Group3
- Scaphitid ammonites of the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation in South Dakota and Wyoming2
Each of the 10 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 Tenuipteria fibrosa 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 Tenuipteria fibrosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tenuipteria fibrosa 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 itTenuipteria through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek and Hayden 1856)