Chenopus

Searched as Chenopus (Tessarolax) bicarinata evolutior. The Paleobiology Database treats Chenopus as the accepted name.

Chenopus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AporrhaidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 6.4 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 119.57 Mya and 113.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly Cretaceous120–119 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences116–116 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences116–116 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences116–116 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences114–114 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences114–114 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences114–114 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences120.1 Mya112.7 Mya

1 occurrence of Chenopus 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

1 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

1 formation

Paja — 6.60°N, 73.09°W

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The named rock units Chenopus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Chenopus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Chenopus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

466 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Chenopus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Chenopus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Chenopus 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAporrhaidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Philippi