Thyasira cretacea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThyasiraPBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Thyasira
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Thyasira
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Thyasira
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 37 million years on record.
The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 66 Mya.
9 occurrences of Thyasira cretacea 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
9 occurrencesThese 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
- Funks Formation · Asuncion Group1
- Budden Canyon Formation1
- Moreno Formation · Great Valley Group1
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The named rock units Thyasira cretacea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Thyasira cretacea and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Thyasira cretacea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
159 taxa- Baluchicardia4 sites
- Granocardium4 sites
- Veniella undata4 sites
- Agerostrea ungulatus3 sites
- Ambigostrea villei3 sites
- Barbatia3 sites
- Callucina3 sites
- Cyprina denmanensis3 sites
- Desmophyllites diphylloides3 sites
- Endocostea regularis3 sites
- Exogyra overwegi3 sites
- Legumen3 sites
- Nicaisolopha nicaisei3 sites
- Nuculana3 sites
- Oscillopha dichotoma3 sites
- Parmicorbula3 sites
- Phacoides3 sites
- Protocardia3 sites
- Pycnodonte vesicularis3 sites
- Spondylus3 sites
- Trigonarca schweinfurthi3 sites
- Acutostrea incurva2 sites
- Agerostrea rouxi2 sites
- Ambigostrea bretoni2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Thyasira cretacea, 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- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages4
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast4
- Jurassic and Cretaceous Gastropods from Hydrocarbon Seeps in Forearc Basin and Accretionary Prism Settings, California1
Each of the 9 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 Thyasira cretacea 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 Thyasira cretacea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Thyasira cretacea 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itThyasira through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Whiteaves 1873)