Birostrina coptensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BirostrinaPBDB
- 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 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Birostrina coptensis on record, most of them in the Early 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
7 occurrences- Early 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
4 formations
- Folkestone Formation · Lower Greensand Group3
- Monk’s Bay Sandstone Formation · Lower Greensand Group1
- Grès verts Dauphinois Formation1
- Cuio Formation1
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The named rock units Birostrina coptensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Birostrina coptensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Birostrina coptensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Anadesmoceras5 sites
- Entolium orbiculare4 sites
- Cucullaea glabra3 sites
- Douvilleiceras mammillatum3 sites
- Leymeriella3 sites
- Semisolarium3 sites
- Exogyra2 sites
- Gyrodes2 sites
- Holaster2 sites
- Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) salomoni2 sites
- Leymeriella (Neoleymeriella) pseudoregularis2 sites
- Leymeriella (Neoleymeriella) regularis2 sites
- Otohoplites2 sites
- Protanisoceras2 sites
- Roberticeras dupinianum2 sites
- Roberticeras newtoni2 sites
- Sonneratia2 sites
- Tessarolax2 sites
- Tortarctica2 sites
- Aconeceras1 site
- Anadesmoceras subbaylei1 site
- Anchura1 site
- Anthonya1 site
- Aptolinter1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Birostrina coptensis, 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 stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand5
- Les grès verts helvétiques (Aptien moyen-Albien supérieur) de Haute-Savoie, Valais et Vaud (Alpes occidentales franco-suisses)1
- Lower Cretaceous (Middle Albian) ammonites from Dombe Grande, Angola1
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Birostrina coptensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Birostrina coptensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Birostrina coptensis 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 itBirostrina through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Casey 1961)