Hipponix dichotomus
No picture of Hipponix dichotomus 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 Hipponix dichotomus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HipponixPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, suspension feederPBDB, for Hipponicidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hipponicidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Hipponicidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Hipponix dichotomus 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
3 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 Hipponix dichotomus 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.
Hipponix dichotomus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Hipponix dichotomus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
84 taxa- Amphidonte (Amphidonte) parasitica3 sites
- Acesta2 sites
- Entobia2 sites
- Inoceramidae2 sites
- Lima2 sites
- Lyriochlamys traskii2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) demessa1 site
- Agnomyax monilifer1 site
- Anchura falciformis1 site
- Anisomyon1 site
- Anomia lineata1 site
- Aporrhaidae1 site
- Architectonica1 site
- Asaphis undulata1 site
- Ataphrus compactus1 site
- Atira ornatissima1 site
- Baculites1 site
- Baculites inornatus1 site
- Baculites occidentalis1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Biplica1 site
- Biplica obliqua1 site
- Calcarea1 site
- Calliomphalus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Hipponix dichotomus, 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- Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results1
- An unusual Late Cretaceous fauna from an oyster-rich interval in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California1
- Description of the Cretaceous fossils1
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 Hipponix dichotomus 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 Hipponix dichotomus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hipponix dichotomus 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 itHipponix through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)