Etea occidentalis
No picture of Etea occidentalis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Etea occidentalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EteaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Venerida
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Venerida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Venerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Etea occidentalis 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
10 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Etea occidentalis 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.
Etea occidentalis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Etea occidentalis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Corbicula astartoides9 sites
- Glycymerita veatchii8 sites
- Ampullina concipio6 sites
- Anomia jalama6 sites
- Legumen ooides6 sites
- Crassatella saulae5 sites
- Pterotrigonia evansana5 sites
- Terebralia juliana5 sites
- Bullamirifica ainiktos4 sites
- Calva (Calva) varians4 sites
- Calva (Egelicalva) crassa4 sites
- Clisocolus dubius4 sites
- Cymbophora gabbiana4 sites
- Popenoella hemphilli4 sites
- Diplodonta davisi3 sites
- Trinacria cor3 sites
- Baculites2 sites
- Caprinidae2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Eripachya jalama2 sites
- Euspira2 sites
- Gyrodes (Sohlella) canadensis2 sites
- Lispodesthes rotundatus2 sites
- Lysis duplicosta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Etea occidentalis, 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
2 references- Mollusca from the upper Cretaceous Jalama Formation, Santa Barbara County, California9
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages1
Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Etea occidentalis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Etea occidentalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Etea occidentalis 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 itEtea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dailey and Popenoe 1966