Drepanocheilus

Drepanocheilus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnchurinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 22 of 117 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 80 of 117 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 117 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 117 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 117 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 117 occurrencesMiocene115–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 4 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 6 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 8 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 18 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 23 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 9 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 4 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 4 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 5 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 8 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 6 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100.5 Mya20.45 Mya115 Mya14 Mya

117 occurrences of Drepanocheilus 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

117 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

18 formations

Tropic Shale — 37.07°N, 111.62°WMancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WKiowa — 37.32°N, 99.75°WKiowa — 37.28°N, 99.66°WKiowa — 37.44°N, 99.08°WKiowa — 37.40°N, 99.02°WKiowa — 38.40°N, 98.04°WKiowa — 38.63°N, 98.10°WKiowa — 38.73°N, 97.53°WKiowa — 38.76°N, 97.75°WKiowa — 38.75°N, 97.75°WKiowa — 38.76°N, 97.86°WPierre Shale — 43.25°N, 104.27°WPierre Shale — 40.06°N, 106.39°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°Eopoka — 51.10°N, 21.80°Eopoka — 51.00°N, 21.78°EPrairie Bluff — 32.97°N, 88.55°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.10°WUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°EBlackdown Greensand — 50.87°N, 3.29°WPicofrentes — 41.12°N, 2.77°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 30.30°N, 97.46°WLewis Shale — 43.27°N, 104.27°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.35°N, 99.14°Wmarly chalk — 51.22°N, 21.43°EBurgeschleinitz — 48.63°N, 15.78°EGankin — 58.92°N, 81.58°EBranderfleck — 47.67°N, 12.17°EDilwyn — 38.72°S, 143.17°E

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The named rock units Drepanocheilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Drepanocheilus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,269 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 99 sites for Drepanocheilus, 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

Each of the 117 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 Drepanocheilus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
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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What may have been alongside itAnchurinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek 1864