Glossus moreauensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlossusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Glossidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Glossidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Glossidae
- 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.
6 occurrences of Glossus moreauensis 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
6 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Glossus moreauensis 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.
Glossus moreauensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Glossus moreauensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
134 taxa- Crenella elegantula6 sites
- Phelopteria linguaeformis6 sites
- Cymbophora warrenana5 sites
- Malletia evansi5 sites
- Modiolus galpinianus5 sites
- Protocardia subquadrata5 sites
- Cucullaea nebrascensis4 sites
- Cuspidaria ventricosa4 sites
- Dosiniopsis deweyi4 sites
- Goniomya americana4 sites
- Grammatodon (Cosmetodon) sulcatinus4 sites
- Nucula cancellata4 sites
- Nuculana (Jupiteria) scitula4 sites
- Nymphalucina occidentalis4 sites
- Oxytoma (Hypoxytoma) nebrascana4 sites
- Pseudoptera subtortuosa4 sites
- Tellinimera scitula4 sites
- Actinosepia canadensis3 sites
- Anomia gryphorhyncha3 sites
- Limopsis striatopunctatus3 sites
- Modiolus meeki3 sites
- Nucula planomarginata3 sites
- Nuculana (Nuculana) grandensis3 sites
- Periploma subgracile3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Glossus moreauensis, 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
3 references- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages2
- Scaphitid ammonites of the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation in South Dakota and Wyoming2
- Geology of the Southern Alberta Plains. Part II. Paleontology of the marine formations of the Montana Group2
Each of the 6 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 Glossus moreauensis 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 Glossus moreauensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glossus moreauensis 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 itGlossus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meerk and Hayden 1861)