Inoceramus convexus

Minor, Keith · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- 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 78 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Inoceramus convexus 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 occurrencesThese 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 Inoceramus convexus 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.
Inoceramus convexus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Inoceramus convexus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- Acteon concinnus1 site
- Agerostrea ungulatus1 site
- Amauropsis paludinaeformis1 site
- Amphidonte1 site
- Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) pliciferum1 site
- Aphrodina1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Baculites compressus1 site
- Baculites ovatus1 site
- Biradiolites1 site
- Bournonia1 site
- Brachidontes1 site
- Camptonectes virgatus1 site
- Caprinella1 site
- Capulus occidentalis1 site
- Cataceramus balticus1 site
- Colveraia1 site
- Crassatella1 site
- Crassatella marrotiana1 site
- Cucullaea1 site
- Curvostrea tevesthensis1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Dhondtichlamys1 site
- Endocostea regularis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Inoceramus convexus, 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- Ammonite and inoceramid faunas from the Davutlar Formation of the Devrekani-Kastamonu area, nothern Turkey, and their biostratigraphical significance1
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages1
- Descriptions of New Species of Fossils, from the Cretaceous Formations of Nebraska, with Observations upon Baculites ovatus and B. compressus, and the Progressive Development of the Septa in Baculites, Ammonites, and Scaphites1
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
Media content1

Picture of Inoceramus convexus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Minor, Keith
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Inoceramus convexus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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. Hall and Meek 1855