Neithea regularis

Neithea regularis

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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 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 106.3 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 10 of 30 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 20 of 30 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 30 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 1 occurrence109–108 Mya — about 2 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 2 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–101 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 1 occurrence88–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–83 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–70 Mya — about 3 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence106.3 Mya72.2 Mya114.1 Mya65.1 Mya

30 occurrences of Neithea regularis 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

30 occurrences

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

7 formations

Riacheulo — 10.76°S, 37.08°WMaastricht — 51.00°N, 6.00°EDakhla — 25.50°N, 29.17°EZirc Limestone — 47.27°N, 17.87°ERiachuelo — 10.50°S, 37.50°WGlauconie de Lonzée — 50.55°N, 4.73°ENeuburger Weiß — 48.73°N, 11.18°E

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The named rock units Neithea regularis 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.

Neithea regularis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Neithea regularis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

410 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Neithea regularis, 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

11 references

Each of the 30 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 content1

Picture of Neithea regularis

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schlotheim 1813)