Neithea occidentalis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeitheaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pectinoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Neitheidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 6.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 93.9 Mya.
5 occurrences of Neithea occidentalis 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
5 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
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The named rock units Neithea occidentalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Neithea occidentalis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Neithea occidentalis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Linearis2 sites
- Lopha2 sites
- Montastraea2 sites
- Peilinia levicostata2 sites
- Plicatula2 sites
- Texigryphaea2 sites
- Actaeonella parvus1 site
- Agnathodonta brooksi1 site
- Alamirifica harrissi1 site
- Amberleya1 site
- Anchura (Perissoptera) hannai1 site
- Aphrodina1 site
- Aptyxiella (Aptyxiella) subula1 site
- Astrocoenia1 site
- Calliostoma cragini1 site
- Caprinuloidea1 site
- Ceratostreon1 site
- Cimolithium eleanorae1 site
- Cimolithium miyakoense tomasensis1 site
- Cirsochilus gilberti1 site
- Cliona1 site
- Coelodus1 site
- Coelosmilia texana1 site
- Corbula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Neithea occidentalis, 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- Mollusks from the Cogollo and La Luna Formations (Cretaceous) of the Chejende area, western Venezuela2
- Nearshore fauna of the Tucumcari Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Albian), Quay County, New Mexico1
- New bivalve taxa from the Tucumcari Formation (Cretaceous, Albian), New Mexico, and the biostratigraphic significance of the basal Tucumcari fauna1
- Middle Cretaceous gastropoda from Punta China, Baja California, Mexico1
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 Neithea occidentalis 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 Neithea occidentalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Neithea occidentalis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
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What may have been alongside itNeithea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1855