Neocaprina gigantea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeocaprinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hippuritida
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Neocaprina gigantea 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
12 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Neocaprina gigantea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Neocaprina gigantea and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Neocaprina gigantea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Caprina3 sites
- Caprina baylei3 sites
- Icthyosarcolites3 sites
- Chondrodonta2 sites
- Ichthyosarcolites tricarinatus2 sites
- Neithea2 sites
- Orthoptychus2 sites
- Caprinula1 site
- Cossmannea1 site
- Eoradiolites liratus1 site
- Foraminifera1 site
- Lopha1 site
- Marinella1 site
- Neithea (Neithea) aequicostata1 site
- Nerinea (Plesioptygmatis)1 site
- Orbitolinidae1 site
- Plesioplocus grandis1 site
- Plesioptyxis1 site
- Polyptyxis1 site
- Polystrata alba1 site
- Pycnoporidium1 site
- Sauvagesia1 site
- Schiosia1 site
- Scleractinia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Neocaprina gigantea, 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
9 references- Upper Cretaceous rudists distribution in the Mediterranean Tethys: comparison between platforms from Spain and South Central Italy3
- Cenomanian carbonate depositional settings: case histories from the central-southern Apennines (Italy)2
- Upper Cretaceous rudist biostratigraphy of the Bey Daglari Carbonate Platform, Western Taurides, SW Turkey1
- Upper Cretaceous stratigraphy of the Bey Daglari carbonate platform, Korkuteli area (western Taurides, Turkey)1
- Rudisti iz cenomanijskih bioherm Hrusice in Nanosa [Rudists from the Cenomanian bioherms of Hrusica and Nanos, Slovenia]1
- Rudist bearing upper Cretaceous metamorphic sequences of the Menderes Massif (Western Turkey)1
- Revision of some species of Cenomanian caprinid rudists instituted by G. G. Gemmellaro in 18651
- Les facies a rudistes du Cenomanien de Hateg (Carpathes meridionales, Roumanie)1
- Upper Cretaceous reef models from Rocca di Cave and adjacent areas in Latium, central Italy1
Each of the 12 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
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No picture of Neocaprina gigantea 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 Neocaprina gigantea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Neocaprina gigantea 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 itNeocaprina through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Plenicar 1960)