Caprinuloidea perfecta

McCall, Linda · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- CaprinuloideaPBDB
- 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 5.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 106.3 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 93.9 Mya.
4 occurrences of Caprinuloidea perfecta 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
- Mal Paso Formation1
- El Abra Formation1
- Provincial Formation1
- Edwards Limestone Formation · Fredericksburg Group1
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The named rock units Caprinuloidea perfecta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Caprinuloidea perfecta and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Caprinuloidea perfecta and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Coalcomana ramosa2 sites
- Kimbleia albrittoni2 sites
- Mexicaprina2 sites
- Tepeyacia corrugata2 sites
- Coalcomana1 site
- Eoradiolites1 site
- Guzzyella1 site
- Guzzyella acuminata1 site
- Guzzyella bisulcata1 site
- Icthyosarcolites1 site
- Jalpania queretana1 site
- Mexicaprina quadrata1 site
- Monopleura1 site
- Muellerriedia1 site
- Muellerriedia boesei1 site
- Pacificaprina1 site
- Radiolites1 site
- Requienia1 site
- Sabinia1 site
- Texicaprina1 site
- Toucasia1 site
- Toucasia hancockensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Caprinuloidea perfecta, 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
3 references- Rudists of Mexico: Historical Aspects and Selected Areas of Research2
- Ontogeny and functional morphology of a lower Cretaceous caprinid Rudist; Bivalvia, Hippuritoida1
- Notas sobre rudistas [Notes about rudists]1
Each of the 4 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
Media content1

Picture of Caprinuloidea perfecta
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- McCall, Linda
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows 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.
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What may have been alongside itCaprinuloidea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Palmer 1928