Grandipatula
No picture of Grandipatula was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Grandipatula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GrandipatulidaePBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Grandipatula 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
3 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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 Grandipatula 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.
Grandipatula and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Grandipatula and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
203 taxa- Amaurellina2 sites
- Astrangia cretacea2 sites
- Athleta (Volutocorbis)2 sites
- Boltenella2 sites
- Cominella2 sites
- Conomitra2 sites
- Crepidula2 sites
- Ellipsoscapha2 sites
- Emarginula (Semperia)2 sites
- Epitonium (Coniscala)2 sites
- Ficopsis (Fulguroficus)2 sites
- Ficus2 sites
- Flabellum anderssoni2 sites
- Fusinus2 sites
- Gemmula2 sites
- Haplovoluta2 sites
- Hipponix2 sites
- Lunatia2 sites
- Mesalia2 sites
- Neptunea (Trophonopsis)2 sites
- Nipteraxis2 sites
- Oculina becki2 sites
- Patella2 sites
- Penion2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Grandipatula, 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- Paleocene gastropods from Nûgssuaq, West Greenland2
- Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossil Gastropoda from Yunnan1
Each of the 3 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. 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
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No picture of Grandipatula was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Grandipatula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Grandipatula 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGrandipatulidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1889