Hippurites

Hippurites is an extinct genus of rudist bivalve mollusc from the Late Cretaceous of Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America.

A picture published with the record for Hippurites.

Fernando Losada Rodríguez · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 392 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 392 of 392 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 392 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 10 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 11 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 11 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 10 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 8 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 8 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 11 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 58 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 45 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 14 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 14 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 14 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 14 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 14 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 14 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 14 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 14 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 14 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 16 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 17 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 17 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 17 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 17 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 7 occurrences93.9 Mya72.2 Mya101.2 Mya65.3 Mya

392 occurrences of Hippurites 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

392 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

43 formations

Milas — 37.38°N, 27.47°EMilas — 37.34°N, 27.56°EMilas — 37.21°N, 27.95°EMilas — 37.14°N, 28.02°EMilas — 37.32°N, 28.18°EMilas — 37.37°N, 28.27°EVallcarga — 42.03°N, 0.83°ESant Corneli — 42.17°N, 0.90°ESant Corneli — 42.03°N, 0.83°EUgod — 46.98°N, 17.28°ECollades de Basturs — 42.17°N, 0.90°ETarbur — 31.58°N, 51.20°EVrbovac Beds — 43.80°N, 22.08°EWadi As Sir Limestone — 32.36°N, 35.74°EWadi As Sir Limestone — 32.40°N, 35.81°EWadi As Sir Limestone — 32.43°N, 35.85°ECardenas — 22.02°N, 99.63°WCardenas — 22.00°N, 99.65°WHochmoos — 47.60°N, 13.52°ECiolo Limestone — 40.03°N, 18.42°ECiolo Limestone — 39.84°N, 18.39°ECiolo Limestone — 39.86°N, 18.39°EBey Daglari — 37.03°N, 30.17°ECongost — 42.23°N, 0.93°ECongost — 42.03°N, 0.83°EMontagut — 42.17°N, 0.90°ECima delle Murelle — 42.10°N, 14.17°EBaba Darves — 36.78°N, 69.95°EBaba Darves — 36.78°N, 70.03°EGuinea Corn — 18.12°N, 77.42°WCalizas — 42.40°N, 0.78°WAqra — 35.78°N, 45.44°EVillaescusa de las Torres — 42.68°N, 4.07°WTrieste Karst Limestone — 45.70°N, 13.73°EKorycany — 50.57°N, 13.75°ECarregador de Carreu — 42.17°N, 0.90°ELa Cadiere d'Azur — 43.20°N, 5.77°E

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The named rock units Hippurites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 268 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hippurites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

630 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 104 sites for Hippurites, 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

83 references

Each of the 392 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. 71 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 content2

Picture of Hippurites

Credit
Fernando Losada Rodríguez
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Lamarck 1801