Beretra speciosa
No picture of Beretra speciosa 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 Beretra speciosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BeretraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
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.
2 occurrences of Beretra speciosa 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
2 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 Beretra speciosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Beretra speciosa and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Beretra speciosa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
226 taxa- Enchodus2 sites
- Gyrodes (Sohlella) spillmani2 sites
- Gyrodes americanus2 sites
- Ischyrhiza mira2 sites
- Ringicula (Ringicula) pulchella2 sites
- Xenophora (Endoptygma) leprosa2 sites
- Aciculiscala acuta1 site
- Acirsa (Hemiacirsa) americana1 site
- Acirsa (Hemiacirsa) cretacea1 site
- Acirsa (Hemiacirsa) flexicostata1 site
- Acirsa (Plesioacirsa) microstriata1 site
- Acirsa (Plesioacirsa) wadei1 site
- Acmaea galea1 site
- Acteon pistilliformis1 site
- Agerostrea mesenterica1 site
- Amaurellina stephensoni1 site
- Ampullina1 site
- Amuletum1 site
- Amuletum fasciolatum1 site
- Anchura convexa1 site
- Anchura substriata1 site
- Anomalofusus substriatus1 site
- Anomia argentaria1 site
- Anomia ornata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Beretra speciosa, 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
2 references- A new Severn formation (Early Middle Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous) locality in Prince Georges County, Maryland1
- Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Beretra speciosa 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 Beretra speciosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Beretra speciosa 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 itBeretra through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sohl 1964