Inoceramus

Searched as Inoceramus costellatus costellatus. The Paleobiology Database treats Inoceramus as the accepted name.

Inoceramus is an extinct genus of fossil marine pteriomorphian bivalves that superficially resembled the related winged pearly oysters of the extant genus Pteria. They lived from the Early Jurassic to latest Cretaceous.

Inoceramus

Eunostos · 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
InoceramidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 4.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 9 of 9 occurrencesLate Cretaceous94–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94.4 Mya89.3 Mya

9 occurrences of Inoceramus 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

9 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.

Inoceramus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,126 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,271 sites for Inoceramus, and this reads 240 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

1 reference

Each of the 9 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 content2

Picture of Inoceramus

Credit
Eunostos
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

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itInoceramidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1814