Deussenia

Deussenia

via iDigBio · CC BY · via iDigBio. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MelongeninaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Melongenidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Melongenidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Melongenidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 33 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 72 of 72 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 72 occurrencesPaleocene95–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 12 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 12 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 12 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 12 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 12 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 6 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94.5 Mya61 Mya

72 occurrences of Deussenia 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

72 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

14 formations

Providence — 31.87°N, 86.08°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.21°WProvidence — 31.78°N, 85.14°WProvidence — 31.75°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.80°N, 85.00°WCorsicana Marl — 33.10°N, 95.99°WCorsicana Marl — 32.88°N, 96.20°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.33°N, 97.54°WCorsicana Marl — 29.49°N, 98.19°WPrairie Bluff — 34.50°N, 88.94°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.72°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 33.50°N, 88.81°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WRipley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WKemp Clay — 29.42°N, 98.49°WKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°WKemp Clay — 30.33°N, 97.46°WOwl Creek — 34.17°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.88°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.94°WChiwapa — 34.36°N, 88.92°WPeedee — 33.99°N, 79.52°WPeedee — 33.83°N, 79.25°WPeedee — 33.86°N, 79.39°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WChico — 39.65°N, 121.60°WEscondido — 29.27°N, 99.05°WEscondido — 28.51°N, 100.32°WTuna Canyon — 34.12°N, 118.57°WMutsuo — 34.35°N, 135.33°EMexcala — 18.17°N, 98.94°W

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The named rock units Deussenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Deussenia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Deussenia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

867 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 63 sites for Deussenia, 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

11 references

Each of the 72 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 Deussenia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stephenson 1941