Inoceramus ginterensis

Cooper, Roger · 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 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Inoceramus ginterensis 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
7 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
5 formations
- Greenhorn Limestone Formation2
- Hikagenosawa Formation · Yezo Group2
- Nagase Formation1
- Haida Formation1
- Graneros Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Inoceramus ginterensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Inoceramus ginterensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Inoceramus ginterensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Inoceramus pennatulus2 sites
- Phelopteria2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) hokkaidoensis1 site
- Borissjakoceras1 site
- Calycoceras (Newboldiceras) asiaticum1 site
- Calycoceras (Newboldiceras) orientale1 site
- Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella)1 site
- Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) ezoanum1 site
- Glycymeris (Hanaia) hokkaidoensis1 site
- Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus1 site
- Marshallites1 site
- Miogaudryceras yokoii1 site
- Neocardioceras1 site
- Sciponoceras gracile1 site
- Zelandites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Inoceramus ginterensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
5 references- Cretaceous Stratigraphy in the Oyubari Area, Central Hokkaido, Japan2
- Diversity and Species Abundance Patterns in Late Cenomanian Black Shale Biofacies, Western Interior, U.S.2
- Stratigraphic investigations of the Cretaceous Queen Chartlotte Group, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia1
- Molluscan fossil record from the northeastern part of the Upper Cretaceous seaway, Western Interior1
- Part VI. Upper Cretaceous inoceramids from the Monobe area, Shikoku1
Each of the 7 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 ginterensis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Cooper, Roger
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Inoceramus ginterensis 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. Pergament 1966