Lunatia obliquata
No picture of Lunatia obliquata 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 Lunatia obliquata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LunatiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Lunatia obliquata 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- 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
5 formations
- Lea Park Formation1
- Ribstone Creek Formation · Belly River Group1
- Bearpaw Formation1
- Peedee Formation1
- Pierre Formation1
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The named rock units Lunatia obliquata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lunatia obliquata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Lunatia obliquata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
72 taxa- Baculites compressus3 sites
- Anomia argentaria2 sites
- Baculites ovatus2 sites
- Inoceramus2 sites
- Leptocardia borealis2 sites
- Modiolus meeki2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Acanthoscaphites1 site
- Acteon concinnus1 site
- Acteonina1 site
- Agerostrea ungulatus1 site
- Amauropsis paludinaeformis1 site
- Anchura1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Anomia gryphorhyncha1 site
- Arca1 site
- Arctica1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Baculites aquilaensis1 site
- Baculites grandis1 site
- Buccinum vinculum1 site
- Callianassa danai1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Corbula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Lunatia obliquata, 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
4 references- The fauna of the Lea Park Shale2
- Invertebrate paleontology of southern plans of Alberta1
- The Cretaceous formations1
- Descriptions of New Species of Fossils, from the Cretaceous Formations of Nebraska, with Observations upon Baculites ovatus and B. compressus, and the Progressive Development of the Septa in Baculites, Ammonites, and Scaphites1
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. 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 Lunatia obliquata 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 Lunatia obliquata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lunatia obliquata 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 itLunatia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall and Meek 1855)