Inoceramus turgidus

No picture of Inoceramus turgidus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Inoceramus turgidus itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Inoceramus turgidus, 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 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous86–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86.2 Mya71.7 Mya

5 occurrences of Inoceramus turgidus 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

5 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.

Found in

3 formations

Pierre Shale — 43.27°N, 104.27°WChico — 39.80°N, 121.73°WLewis Shale — 36.40°N, 106.84°W

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The named rock units Inoceramus turgidus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Inoceramus turgidus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Inoceramus turgidus, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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 doi.org. 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 turgidus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Inoceramus turgidus itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Inoceramus turgidus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Inoceramus turgidus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 1958