Glossus slatana
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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 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Glossus slatana 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
5 occurrencesThese 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 slatana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Glossus slatana and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Glossus slatana and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Cyprimeria4 sites
- Anchura3 sites
- Cymbophora3 sites
- Ostrea soleniscus3 sites
- Parmicorbula3 sites
- Sinonia3 sites
- Yoldia3 sites
- Acmaea2 sites
- Anomia2 sites
- Breviarca2 sites
- Callistina2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Euspira2 sites
- Linearis2 sites
- Liopistha (Psilomya)2 sites
- Metengonoceras dumbli2 sites
- Natica dorothiensis2 sites
- Pseudoptera2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila)1 site
- Amberleya1 site
- Aphrodina1 site
- Calliostoma cragini1 site
- Camptonectes1 site
- Camptonectes (Camptonectes)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Glossus slatana, 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- Larger invertebrate fossils of the Woodbine formation (Cenomanian) of Texas4
- Nearshore fauna of the Tucumcari Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Albian), Quay County, New Mexico1
Each of the 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Glossus slatana 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 slatana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glossus slatana 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 itGlossus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stephenson 1952)