Trochoceramus
No picture of Trochoceramus 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 Trochoceramus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- InoceramidaePBDB
- 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 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
36 occurrences of Trochoceramus 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
36 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
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The named rock units Trochoceramus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Trochoceramus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Trochoceramus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
350 taxa- Pycnodonte vesicularis12 sites
- Inoceramus (Endocostea)10 sites
- Lyriochlamys10 sites
- Dhondtichlamys8 sites
- Modiolus8 sites
- Spondylus8 sites
- Veniella8 sites
- Agerostrea ungulatus7 sites
- Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) pliciferum7 sites
- Cucullaea7 sites
- Endocostea regularis7 sites
- Nuculana7 sites
- Baluchicardia6 sites
- Cataceramus balticus6 sites
- Crassatella6 sites
- Gyrostrea6 sites
- Limopsis6 sites
- Mesocallista6 sites
- Neithea regularis6 sites
- Nucula6 sites
- Platyceramus6 sites
- Rastellum6 sites
- Trigonarca6 sites
- Veniella undata6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Trochoceramus, 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
5 references- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages21
- Inoceramid bivalves in the Campanian-Maastrichtian of Tercis les Bains (Landes, France)10
- Maastrichtian inoceramid bivalves from Central Chiapas, southeaster México3
- Cretaceous bivalves from Ecuador and northern Peru1
- Revision of the Upper Cretaceous rudists from northwestern Peru1
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 content0
No picture of Trochoceramus 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 Trochoceramus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Trochoceramus 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 itInoceramidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heinz 1932