Legumen ellipticum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LegumenPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.
113 occurrences of Legumen ellipticum 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
113 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
13 formations
- Prairie Bluff Formation · Selma Group23
- Nacatoch Sand Formation · Navarro Group19
- Owl Creek Formation11
- Corsicana Marl Formation11
- Providence Formation10
- Severn Formation10
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The named rock units Legumen ellipticum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Legumen ellipticum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Legumen ellipticum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
546 taxa- Crassatella vadosa60 sites
- Anomia argentaria55 sites
- Cyprimeria54 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata54 sites
- Veniella conradi52 sites
- Idonearca capax47 sites
- Nucula percrassa47 sites
- Cymbophora46 sites
- Liopistha protexta46 sites
- Nuculana46 sites
- Crenella serica45 sites
- Syncyclonema44 sites
- Camptonectes bubonis43 sites
- Linearis43 sites
- Striarca41 sites
- Granocardium40 sites
- Cubitostrea tecticosta39 sites
- Tenea37 sites
- Lima acutilineata33 sites
- Pycnodonte vesicularis33 sites
- Turritella vertebroides33 sites
- Cyclorisma32 sites
- Tellinimera32 sites
- Gryphaeostrea vomer30 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 111 sites for Legumen ellipticum, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
12 references- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain34
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages22
- The larger invertebrate fossils of the Navarro group of Texas19
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf16
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain14
- Fabric of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Marine Macrofaunal Transition at Braggs, Alabama2
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
- Exceptionally preserved invertebrate fauna from the Upper Cretaceous Paguate Member of the Dakota Formation, Rio Puerco Valley, Sandoval county, New Mexico1
- Bivalves and Gastropods from the Middle Campanian Anacacho Limestone, south central Texas1
- Patterns of molluscan extinction and recovery across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in east Texas; report on new outcrops1
- Stratigraphy of the outcropping post-Magothy Upper Cretaceous formations in Southern New Jersey an Northern Delmarva peninsula, Delaware and Maryland1
- Gastropods from the coffee Sand (Upper Cretaceous) of Mississippi1
Each of the 113 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 content2
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Legumen ellipticum · USNM:PAL:USNM PAL76669
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Shellie Luallin
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Legumen ellipticum 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 Legumen ellipticum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLegumen through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1858