Dosiniopsis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CallocardiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 44 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
56 occurrences of Dosiniopsis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
56 occurrences- Late Cretaceous30%
- Paleocene52%
- Eocene16%
- Oligocene2%
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
16 formations
- Aquia Formation · Pamunkey Group18
- Pierre Shale Formation · Montana Group7
- Bearpaw Formation3
- London Clay Formation2
- Meganos Formation2
- Tuscahoma Formation · Wilcox Group2
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The named rock units Dosiniopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dosiniopsis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Dosiniopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
810 taxa- Glycymeris10 sites
- Oxytoma (Hypoxytoma) nebrascana9 sites
- Ostrea8 sites
- Inoceramus7 sites
- Pitar7 sites
- Phelopteria linguaeformis6 sites
- Protocardia6 sites
- Tancredia americana6 sites
- Acteon5 sites
- Corbula5 sites
- Crassatella5 sites
- Cymbophora warrenana5 sites
- Dentalium5 sites
- Modiolus5 sites
- Siphonalia5 sites
- Arctica4 sites
- Crenella elegantula4 sites
- Cucullaea nebrascensis4 sites
- Euspira glaucinoides4 sites
- Glossus moreauensis4 sites
- Goniomya americana4 sites
- Malletia evansi4 sites
- Modiolus galpinianus4 sites
- Modiolus meeki4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Dosiniopsis, 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
23 references- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda18
- The Red Bird Section of the Upper Cretaceous Pierre Shale in Wyoming6
- Geology of the Southern Alberta Plains. Part II. Paleontology of the marine formations of the Montana Group5
- Fauna i stratygrafia paleocenu srodkowej Wisly3
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages2
- Molluscs from the Tilehurst Member (London Clay Formation, Early Eocene) at Crondall and Up Nately (Hampshire)2
- Les Bivalvia du Danien et du Montien de la Belgique2
- The Lower Eocene Mollusca of Abbey Wood and of High Halstow2
- The geology and paleontology of the type section of the Meganos Formation (lower Middle Eocene) of California2
- Palaeontological Study of the Neerrepen Sands in the Francart Quarry (Tongeren, Belgium)1
- Scaphitid ammonites of the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation in South Dakota and Wyoming1
- A Paleocene fauna from a bore-hole at Montowskie Pastwiska near Gniew (Northern Poland)1
Each of the 56 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. 11 further references are not listed. 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 Dosiniopsis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dosiniopsis 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 itCallocardiinae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1864)