Caprina

Caprina is a genus of rudists, a group of marine heterodont bivalves belonging to the family Caprinidae.

Caprina

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CaprinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hippuritida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hippuritida

Time the record covers

At least 132 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 20 of 72 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 45 of 72 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 72 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 72 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 72 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 72 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 72 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 72 occurrences140–135 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 3 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 10 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 17 occurrences98–93 Mya — about 24 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–70 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences70–65 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.7–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences132.6 Mya129 ka140 Mya0 Mya

72 occurrences of Caprina 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

72 occurrences

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

14 formations

Cumburindio — 18.58°N, 100.88°WCumburindio — 18.53°N, 100.95°WCima delle Murelle — 42.10°N, 14.17°EBey Daglari — 36.99°N, 30.10°ESan Lucas — 18.58°N, 100.88°WAltamira — 43.38°N, 4.22°WMagyaregregy Conglomerate — 46.17°N, 18.25°EMakinoyama — 33.22°N, 132.57°EEl Cajon — 18.58°N, 100.88°WShuaiba — 23.10°N, 57.53°EMural Limestone — 31.35°N, 109.89°WSligo — 28.03°N, 98.77°WYilani — 37.57°N, 29.23°EHummar — 32.36°N, 35.74°EGuinea Corn Fm — 18.14°N, 77.34°W

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The named rock units Caprina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 49 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Caprina and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Caprina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

354 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Caprina, 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

44 references

Each of the 72 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. 32 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 Caprina

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCaprinidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1822