Christitys delta
No picture of Christitys delta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Christitys delta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChristitysPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 89.8 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Christitys delta 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
3 occurrences- Late 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
2 formations
- Redding Formation2
- Panoche Formation · Great Valley Group1
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The named rock units Christitys delta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Christitys delta and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Christitys delta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Meekia (Meekia) louella2 sites
- Baculites schenki1 site
- Biplica isoplicata1 site
- Califadesma1 site
- Califadesma aspris1 site
- Calva (Egelicalva) taffi1 site
- Calva (Microcalva) elderi1 site
- Cancellariidae1 site
- Cymbophora1 site
- Damesites damesi intermedius1 site
- Glycymeris1 site
- Naticidae1 site
- Nuculana1 site
- Paosia ursula1 site
- Perissitys cretacea1 site
- Peroniceras shastense1 site
- Plectocion curvirostris1 site
- Prionocyclus californicus1 site
- Pyktes aspris1 site
- Pyropsis californica1 site
- Tellinidae1 site
- Zinsitys meisteri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Christitys delta, 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- Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results1
- New Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary Perissityidae (Gastropoda) from the Pacific Slope of North America1
- Evolution and classification of the Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary gastropod Perissitys1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Christitys delta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Christitys delta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Christitys delta 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 itChristitys through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Popenoe and Saul 1987