Cymbophora ashburnerii

Cymbophora ashburnerii

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CymbophoraPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Mactridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Mactridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Mactridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

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.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 38 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 38 of 38 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 38 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 3 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence93.9 Mya72.2 Mya101.2 Mya65.3 Mya

38 occurrences of Cymbophora ashburnerii 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

38 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

10 formations

Jalama — 34.51°N, 120.42°WJalama — 34.51°N, 120.45°WJalama — 34.50°N, 120.34°WChatsworth — 34.21°N, 118.69°WChatsworth — 34.21°N, 118.81°WMoreno — 37.91°N, 121.78°WMoreno — 37.23°N, 121.12°WWilliams — 33.70°N, 117.63°WChico — 39.80°N, 121.73°WChico — 39.64°N, 121.56°WChico — 38.72°N, 121.21°WPanoche — 35.88°N, 120.10°WDeer Valley — 37.92°N, 121.81°WMartinez — 38.03°N, 122.16°WPleasants Sandstone — 33.65°N, 117.68°WLadd — 33.71°N, 117.64°W

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The named rock units Cymbophora ashburnerii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cymbophora ashburnerii and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cymbophora ashburnerii and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

220 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Cymbophora ashburnerii, 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

10 references

Each of the 38 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 Cymbophora ashburnerii

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cymbophora ashburnerii 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 itCymbophora through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)