Inoceramus albertensis
No picture of Inoceramus albertensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Inoceramus albertensis itself, so it was not used. 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 Inoceramus albertensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- InoceramusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Inoceramus
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Inoceramus
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Inoceramus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Inoceramus albertensis 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
2 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
2 formations
- Kaskapau Formation · Smoky Group1
- Straight Cliffs Formation1
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The named rock units Inoceramus albertensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Inoceramus albertensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Inoceramus albertensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Arctica1 site
- Arctica murrayensis1 site
- Arrhoges1 site
- Collignoniceras woollgari1 site
- Corbula nematophora1 site
- Cyrena1 site
- Euspira1 site
- Exogyra1 site
- Inoceramus (Volviceramus) koeneni1 site
- Inoceramus corpulentus1 site
- Lingula subspatulata1 site
- Liopistha (Psilomya) allani1 site
- Metoicoceras geslinianum1 site
- Mytiloides labiatus1 site
- Opis1 site
- Panope murrayensis1 site
- Panope webbi1 site
- Pholadomya albertensis1 site
- Phygraea newberryi1 site
- Prionocyclus hyatti1 site
- Prionotropis caurinus1 site
- Scaphites1 site
- Sciponoceras gracile1 site
- Tellina (Linearia) delicatula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Inoceramus albertensis, 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- Palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Middle-Upper Coniacian and Santonian inoceramids of the US Western Interior1
- Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology: New species from the Coloradoan of Lower Smokey and Lower Peace Rivers, Alberta1
Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Inoceramus albertensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Inoceramus albertensis itself, so it was not used.
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 Inoceramus albertensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Inoceramus albertensis 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 itInoceramus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McLearn 1926