Kimbleia
No picture of Kimbleia was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Kimbleia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CaprinuloideidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hippuritida
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Kimbleia on record, most of them in the Early 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
9 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Mal Paso Formation1
- El Abra Formation1
- Sierra Madre Formation1
- Devils River Limestone Formation1
- Fort Lancaster Formation1
- Stuart City Formation1
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The named rock units Kimbleia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Kimbleia and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Kimbleia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Caprinuloidea3 sites
- Coalcomana3 sites
- Caprinuloidea perfecta2 sites
- Mexicaprina2 sites
- Radiolites2 sites
- Requienia2 sites
- Texicaprina2 sites
- Toucasia2 sites
- Coalcomana ramosa1 site
- Eoradiolites1 site
- Guzzyella1 site
- Guzzyella acuminata1 site
- Guzzyella bisulcata1 site
- Jalpania queretana1 site
- Mexicaprina quadrata1 site
- Monopleura1 site
- Muellerriedia1 site
- Muellerriedia boesei1 site
- Pacificaprina1 site
- Sauvagesia1 site
- Tepeyacia corrugata1 site
- Toucasia hancockensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Kimbleia, 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- Rudists of Mexico: Historical Aspects and Selected Areas of Research4
- Albian rudist biostratigraphy (Bivalvia), Comanche shelf to shelf margin, Texas3
- Barremian-Albian rudist zones, U.S. Gulf Coast2
Each of the 9 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 Kimbleia was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Kimbleia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCaprinuloideidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Coogan 1973