Bernaya (Protocypraea) gualalaensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Bernaya (Protocypraea)PBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeidae
- 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.
8 occurrences of Bernaya (Protocypraea) gualalaensis 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
8 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
- Point Loma Formation · Rosario Group6
- Gualala Formation2
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The named rock units Bernaya (Protocypraea) gualalaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bernaya (Protocypraea) gualalaensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Bernaya (Protocypraea) gualalaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Rapopsis joseana2 sites
- Aletopelta coombsi1 site
- Ammonoidea1 site
- Bernaya (Bernaya) crawfordcatei1 site
- Bernaya (Protocypraea) rineyi1 site
- Calva (Calva) peninsularis1 site
- Fimbrivasum elegans1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Hadrosauridae1 site
- Hoploparia bretoni1 site
- Ischyodus bifurcatus1 site
- Longoconcha eumeka1 site
- Lysis jalamaca1 site
- Murphitys madonna1 site
- Ostrea1 site
- Ringicula (Ringiculopsis) hesperiae1 site
- Scapanorhynchus1 site
- Spondylus1 site
- Squalicorax1 site
- Volutoderma perissa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Bernaya (Protocypraea) gualalaensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- New species of Late Cretaceous Cypraeidae (Gastropoda) from California and British Columbia and new records from the Pacific slope7
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast1
Each of the 8 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 Bernaya (Protocypraea) gualalaensis 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 Bernaya (Protocypraea) gualalaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bernaya (Protocypraea) gualalaensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itBernaya (Protocypraea) through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Anderson 1958)