Hippuritella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HippuritidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritidae
Life habit
semi-infaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Hippuritidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hippuritida

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 156 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 156 of 156 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 156 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 3 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 3 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 4 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 19 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 15 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 5 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 5 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 5 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 5 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 5 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 5 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 5 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 5 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 5 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 9 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 11 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 11 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 11 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 11 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 5 occurrences89.8 Mya72.2 Mya101.2 Mya65.3 Mya

156 occurrences of Hippuritella 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

156 occurrences

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

17 formations

Vallcarga — 42.03°N, 0.83°ESant Corneli — 42.17°N, 0.90°ESant Corneli — 42.03°N, 0.83°EVrbovac Beds — 43.80°N, 22.08°EArén — 42.17°N, 0.90°EArén — 42.03°N, 0.83°ECollades de Basturs — 42.17°N, 0.90°ECiolo Limestone — 39.84°N, 18.39°ECiolo Limestone — 39.86°N, 18.39°ECalizas — 42.40°N, 0.78°WMaastricht — 51.00°N, 6.00°EMontagut — 42.17°N, 0.90°ELa Cadiere d'Azur — 43.20°N, 5.77°EBastida — 38.95°N, 0.38°WTorrella — 38.95°N, 0.38°WLokman — 40.63°N, 35.77°EAuradu — 11.03°N, 49.05°EUgod — 46.98°N, 17.28°ELower — 47.45°N, 11.87°EGuinea Corn — 18.15°N, 77.33°W

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The named rock units Hippuritella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 122 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hippuritella and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Hippuritella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

353 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Hippuritella, 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

37 references

Each of the 156 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. 25 further references are not listed. 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

Media content0

No picture of Hippuritella 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 Hippuritella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Hippuritella 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 itHippuritidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Douvillé 1908