Cretirhynchia plicatilis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CretirhynchiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.
19 occurrences of Cretirhynchia plicatilis 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
19 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
- Upper Chalk Formation · Chalk Group5
- Seaford Formation1
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The named rock units Cretirhynchia plicatilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cretirhynchia plicatilis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cretirhynchia plicatilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Cidaris vesiculosa2 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata2 sites
- Gemmarcula menardi2 sites
- Grasirhynchia grasiana2 sites
- Inoceramus2 sites
- Orbirhynchia cuvieri2 sites
- Acrolamna acuminata1 site
- Avellana1 site
- Avicula1 site
- Confusiscala1 site
- Cretoxyrhina mantelli1 site
- Cyclothyris compressa1 site
- Cyclothyris latissima1 site
- Cymatoceras manuanensis1 site
- Dercetidae1 site
- Discoidea subuculus1 site
- Discoides1 site
- Discoides minimus1 site
- Enchodus lewesiensis1 site
- Eostriatolamia subulata1 site
- Galerites elliptica1 site
- Goniomya1 site
- Hemiaster zululandensis1 site
- Holaster1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Cretirhynchia plicatilis, 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
6 references- Brachiopodes du Campanien-Maastrichtien à Tercis les Bains (Landes, France)5
- A first step in the revision of the genus Cretirhynchia Pettitt, 19505
- Rhynchonellidae of the British Chalk5
- O średnich warstwach krédowych w krakowskim okręgu2
- Die Oberkreide der Sack-Mulde bei Alfeld (Cenoman-Unter-Coniac) Lithologie, Biostratigraphie und Inoceramen1
- Die geologische Entwicklung von Süd-Mozambique seit der Unterkreide und die Ammoniten-Fauna von Unterkreide und Cenoman1
Each of the 19 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 Cretirhynchia plicatilis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cretirhynchia plicatilis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCretirhynchia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1816)