Caprinuloidea romeri

Hojnack, R · 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 most 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Caprinuloidea romeri 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
6 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
- Stuart City Formation · Fredericksburg Group2
- Person Formation · Edwards Group2
- Denton Formation · Washita Group1
- Fort Lancaster Formation1
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The named rock units Caprinuloidea romeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Caprinuloidea romeri and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Caprinuloidea romeri and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Chondrodonta1 site
- Coskinolinoides1 site
- Dictyoconus1 site
- Endostoma mexicana1 site
- Eoradiolites1 site
- Pseudopetalodontia felixi1 site
- Texicaprina1 site
- Toucasia1 site
- Youngicaprina sangabrieli1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Caprinuloidea romeri, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Caprinuloidea romeri
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Hojnack, R
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Caprinuloidea romeri 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 itCaprinuloidea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mitchell 2013