Notopocorystes

Notopocorystes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeocorystidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Raninoidia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 21 of 29 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 29 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 29 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 3 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 3 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 3 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 3 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 3 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 3 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113.2 Mya72.2 Mya123 Mya65 Mya

29 occurrences of Notopocorystes 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

29 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

10 formations

Cambridge Greensand — 52.20°N, 0.13°EFolkestone — 51.27°N, 0.08°EBathurst Island — 11.62°S, 130.38°EDenton — 32.95°N, 97.35°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.98°WGault — 51.08°N, 1.18°EUpper Greensand — 50.74°N, 2.92°WFolkestone Greensand — 51.09°N, 1.20°ELower Chalk — 51.13°N, 1.35°ETrigonia Sandstone — 43.16°N, 141.44°E

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The named rock units Notopocorystes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Notopocorystes and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Notopocorystes and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Notopocorystes, 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 29 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 Notopocorystes

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No 3D scan of Notopocorystes 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 itPalaeocorystidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. M'Coy 1849