Inoceramus virgatus
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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 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.
134 occurrences of Inoceramus virgatus 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
134 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
3 formations
- Baddeckenstedt Formation · Lower Plänerkalk Group3
- Hikagenosawa Formation · Yezo Group2
- Brochterbeck Formation1
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The named rock units Inoceramus virgatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 128 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Inoceramus virgatus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Inoceramus virgatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Gnesioceramus cripsii71 sites
- Mantelliceras dixoni15 sites
- Schloenbachia varians subtuberculata14 sites
- Mantelliceras saxbii6 sites
- Acanthoceras rhotomagense5 sites
- Schloenbachia varians3 sites
- Turrilites costatus3 sites
- Hamites duplicatus2 sites
- Hypoturrilites tuberculatus2 sites
- Inoceramus pennatulus2 sites
- Scaphites obliquus2 sites
- Sciponoceras2 sites
- Acompsoceras inconstans1 site
- Actinocamax1 site
- Actinocamax primus1 site
- Anisoceras1 site
- Anisoceras plicatilis1 site
- Belemnocamax1 site
- Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella)1 site
- Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) japonicum1 site
- Eogunnarites1 site
- Hamites simplex1 site
- Hamites subvirgulatus1 site
- Hypoturrilites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 79 sites for Inoceramus virgatus, 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
3 references- Die Oberkreide der Sack-Mulde bei Alfeld (Cenoman-Unter-Coniac) Lithologie, Biostratigraphie und Inoceramen128
- Integrated stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of the Cenomanian-Lower Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) of Northern Westphalia, North Germany4
- Cretaceous Stratigraphy in the Oyubari Area, Central Hokkaido, Japan2
Each of the 134 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 virgatus 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 virgatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Inoceramus virgatus 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. Schlüter 1877