Compressidens
No picture of Compressidens was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Compressidens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GadilidaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Gadilida
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Gadilida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Gadilida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Scaphopoda
Time the record covers
At least 6.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 56 Mya.
4 occurrences of Compressidens on record, most of them in the Paleocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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 occurrences- Late Cretaceous25%
- Paleocene75%
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
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The named rock units Compressidens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Compressidens and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Compressidens and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
103 taxa- Aturoidea distans3 sites
- Austrofusus3 sites
- Calliotropis3 sites
- Cirsochilus3 sites
- Colposigma3 sites
- Columbarium3 sites
- Conominolia3 sites
- Cuspidaria3 sites
- Euspira3 sites
- Eutrephoceras victorianum3 sites
- Fissidentalium3 sites
- Gilbertina3 sites
- Limea3 sites
- Marshallaria3 sites
- Tornatellaea3 sites
- Acteon2 sites
- Anomia2 sites
- Aphrodina (Tikia)2 sites
- Astarte (Astarte)2 sites
- Australoneilo2 sites
- Bertinella lapidaria2 sites
- Carditellopsis2 sites
- Cosmasyrinx2 sites
- Cucullaea2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Compressidens, 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
2 references- Gastropoda, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda, and new Bivalvia of the Paleocene Pebble Point Formation, Victoria, Australia3
- Note on tooth of an extinct alligator (Bottosaurus belgicus, sp. nov.) from the Lower Danian of Ciply, Belgium1
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 content0
No picture of Compressidens was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Compressidens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Compressidens 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 itGadilida through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pilsbry and Sharp 1897