Inoceramus pacificus
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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 least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya.
27 occurrences of Inoceramus pacificus 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
27 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
- Okarahia Sandstone Formation · Mata Group18
- Cabrillo Formation2
- Glenburn Formation · Mangapurupuru Group1
- Te Mai Formation · Tinui Group1
- Rosario Formation1
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The named rock units Inoceramus pacificus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Inoceramus pacificus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Inoceramus pacificus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
171 taxa- Dimitobelus19 sites
- Dentalium15 sites
- Rotularia15 sites
- Callista13 sites
- Procancellaria13 sites
- Lima (Limatula) woodsi12 sites
- Chlamys (Mixtipecten)11 sites
- Pacitrigonia hanetiana11 sites
- Eriphyla10 sites
- Anomia9 sites
- Cucullaea (Cucullastis) zealandica9 sites
- Panopea clausa9 sites
- Entolium membranaceum8 sites
- Jupiteria8 sites
- Lahillia8 sites
- Ostrea8 sites
- Camptonectes7 sites
- Eriptycha7 sites
- Oistotrigonia7 sites
- Thracia7 sites
- Anthonya6 sites
- Dreissensia cf. lanceolata6 sites
- Tudiclana6 sites
- Glycymerita5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Inoceramus pacificus, 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
8 references- The Piripauan and Haumurian stratotypes (Mata Series, Upper Cretaceous) and correlative sequences in the Haumuri Bluff district, South Marlborough (S56)10
- The Piripauan and Haumurian stratotypes (Mata Series, Upper Cretaceous) and correlative sequences in the Haumuri Bluff District, South Marlborough8
- Geology of the Tinui-Awatoitoi District2
- The Paleontology of the Cabrillo Formation2
- Distribution, stratigraphy and stratigraphic relationships of Cretaceous sediments, western Raukumara Peninsula, New Zealand2
- Biogeographical and stratigraphical significance of the latest Turonian and Early Coniacian inoceramid/ammonite succession of the Manasoa section on the Onilahy River, south-west Madagascar1
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages1
- Cretaceous geology of Lower California1
Each of the 27 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
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No picture of Inoceramus pacificus 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 pacificus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Inoceramus pacificus 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. Anderson and Hanna 1935