Cymbophora popenoei
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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 most 35 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Cymbophora popenoei 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
15 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
5 formations
- Ladd Formation6
- Williams Formation3
- Pigeon Point Formation2
- Tuna Canyon Formation1
- Chatsworth Formation1
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The named rock units Cymbophora popenoei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cymbophora popenoei and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cymbophora popenoei and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
163 taxa- Pterotrigonia evansana10 sites
- Glycymerita veatchii9 sites
- Calva (Egelicalva) bowersiana8 sites
- Paraesa lens8 sites
- Crassatella7 sites
- Cymbophora triangulata6 sites
- Biplica obliqua5 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) youngi5 sites
- Euspira5 sites
- Trinacria cor5 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) demessa4 sites
- Clisocolus cordatus4 sites
- Crassatella lomana4 sites
- Cymbophora stantoni4 sites
- Gyrodes (Sohlella) pacificus4 sites
- Isognomon4 sites
- Lysis suciensis4 sites
- Metaplacenticeras pacificum4 sites
- Pentzia hilgardi4 sites
- Perissitys pacifica4 sites
- Atira ornatissima3 sites
- Crassatella conradiana3 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) anae3 sites
- Lispodesthes rotundatus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Cymbophora popenoei, 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
8 references- Water depth indications from Late Cretaceous mollusks, Santa Ana Mountains, California4
- Described or figured West Coast species of Cymbophora4
- Checklist of Mesozoic macrofossil localities in the Santa Cruz Mountains and vicinity2
- Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results1
- An unusual Late Cretaceous fauna from an oyster-rich interval in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California1
- Type And Referred Specimens of Fossil Invertebrata in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Supplement 3: Mollusca Formerly Conserved at the University of California, Los Angeles1
- Late Cretaceous Mollusca of the Simi Hills: An Introduction1
- Geology of the Northern Santa Ana Mountains, California1
Each of the 15 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 popenoei
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cymbophora popenoei 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 itCymbophora through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Saul 1974