Camptonectes
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PectinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pectinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 248 million years on record.
The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
1,694 occurrences of Camptonectes 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
1,694 occurrences- Permianunder 1%
- Middle Triassicunder 1%
- Late Triassicunder 1%
- Early Jurassic11%
- Middle Jurassic28%
- Late Jurassic19%
- Early Cretaceous9%
- Late Cretaceous29%
- Paleocene1%
- Eoceneunder 1%
- Oligoceneunder 1%
- Mioceneunder 1%
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
240 formations
- Kap Leslie Formation142
- Carmel Formation113
- Providence Formation73
- Twin Creek Limestone Formation64
- Chari Formation63
- Jagüel Formation · Malargüe Group55
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The named rock units Camptonectes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 216 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 354 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Camptonectes and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Camptonectes and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
1,113 taxa- Astarte95 sites
- Ammonoidea74 sites
- Entolium orbiculare71 sites
- Isognomon69 sites
- Pleuromya61 sites
- Pinna56 sites
- Taimyrothyris54 sites
- Belemnitida52 sites
- Buchia mosquensis48 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata45 sites
- Pycnodonte44 sites
- Pycnodonte vesicularis44 sites
- Grammatodon43 sites
- Plagiostoma43 sites
- Liostrea42 sites
- Modiolus42 sites
- Serpula intestinalis40 sites
- Anomia argentaria39 sites
- Cyprimeria39 sites
- Crenella serica38 sites
- Nuculana38 sites
- Pseudolimea reticulata38 sites
- Panopea37 sites
- Syncyclonema37 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 1,317 sites for Camptonectes, and this reads 240 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
239 references- Marine Jurassic Pelecypods From Central and Southern Utah130
- Unpublished data114
- Genesis and environmental significance of Upper Cretaceous shell concentrations from the Cauvery Basin, southern India91
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain83
- Molluscs at the K/Pg boundary in Argentina: Extinction and recovery patterns. unpublished Ph.D. thesis78
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf72
- Unpublished data from Kachchh70
- Twin Creek Limestone (Jurassic) in the Western Interior of the United States60
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages53
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain48
- Palökologie benthischer Faunen aus dem Unter-Toarc SW-Europas34
- The Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary and the Berriasian Stage in the Boreal Realm34
Each of the 1,694 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. 227 further references are not listed. 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 content1
Picture of Camptonectes
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPectinidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek 1864)