Inoceramus niger
No picture of Inoceramus niger was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 niger, 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 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 89.8 Mya and 85.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Inoceramus niger 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
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The named rock units Inoceramus niger has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Inoceramus niger and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Inoceramus niger and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Cataceramus bantu2 sites
- Lima (Plagiostoma) pseudohoernesi2 sites
- Pseudocucullaea lens2 sites
- Turritella nodosa2 sites
- Venericardia nauliensis2 sites
- Aphrodina (Mesocallista) riedeli1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Cardium perobliquum1 site
- Cardium subperobliquum1 site
- Costacopluma concava1 site
- Fusus climacodes1 site
- Gymnarus fraasi1 site
- Helicaulax latealata1 site
- Hyotissa semiplana1 site
- Inoperna flagellifera1 site
- Pachydiscus stallauensis1 site
- Pleurotoma faxensis1 site
- Plicatula1 site
- Plicatula flattersi1 site
- Plicatula locardi1 site
- Purpura liguta1 site
- Scalaria varicostata1 site
- Solarium (Climacopoma) leviumbilicatum1 site
- Strepsidura gracilis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Inoceramus niger, 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- Upper Cretaceous Mollusca (Lamellibranchia and Gastropoda) from Nigeria1
- The stratigraphy of the southern Cameroons1
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. 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 content0
No picture of Inoceramus niger was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 niger, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Inoceramus niger 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. (Heinz 1932)