Kuphus fistula
No picture of Kuphus fistula was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Kuphus fistula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KuphusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Kuphus
- Life habit
- boringPBDB, for Kuphus
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Kuphus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
10 occurrences of Kuphus fistula on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
10 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
3 formations
- Yorktown Formation · Chesapeake Group8
- Eastover Formation · Chesapeake Group1
- St Mary's Formation · Chesapeake Group1
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The named rock units Kuphus fistula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kuphus fistula and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Kuphus fistula and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
121 taxa- Cyclocardia granulata7 sites
- Marvacrassatella7 sites
- Ecphora quadricostata6 sites
- Mercenaria6 sites
- Bostrycapulus aculeatus5 sites
- Crucibulum (Dispotaea) constrictum5 sites
- Euspira heros5 sites
- Turritella (Turritella) alticostata5 sites
- Astarte4 sites
- Chesapecten jeffersonius4 sites
- Costaglycymeris subovata4 sites
- Crepidula fornicata4 sites
- Noetia incile4 sites
- Panopea4 sites
- Parvilucina crenulata4 sites
- Astarte concentrica3 sites
- Astyris communis3 sites
- Balanus3 sites
- Busycon3 sites
- Chesapecten madisonius3 sites
- Crepidula plana3 sites
- Dosinia acetabulum3 sites
- Glossus fraterna3 sites
- Hiatella arctica3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Kuphus fistula, 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- The G.D Harris 1890 manuscript on the stratigraphy of Miocene and Pliocene beds at Yorktown, Virginia4
- Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America4
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions2
Each of the 10 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Kuphus fistula was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Kuphus fistula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kuphus fistula 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itKuphus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lea 1843)