Protelliptio (Plesielliptio) priscus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Elliptio (Plesielliptio)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Unionida
Time the record covers
At least 6.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 56 Mya.
8 occurrences of Protelliptio (Plesielliptio) priscus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
8 occurrences- Late Cretaceous25%
- Paleocene75%
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
3 formations
- Ravenscrag Formation5
- Sentinel Butte Formation1
- Scollard Formation · Edmonton Group1
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The named rock units Protelliptio (Plesielliptio) priscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Protelliptio (Plesielliptio) priscus and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Protelliptio (Plesielliptio) priscus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Viviparus7 sites
- Lioplacodes5 sites
- Campeloma4 sites
- Cyclurus2 sites
- Hydrobia2 sites
- Lepisosteus2 sites
- Sphaerium2 sites
- Ceratopsidae1 site
- Champsosaurus1 site
- Corbula1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Dromaeosaurus1 site
- Goniobasis1 site
- Gypsonictops hypoconus1 site
- Hadrosauridae1 site
- Leptoceratops1 site
- Myledaphus bipartitus1 site
- Neoplagiaulacidae1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
- Parasaniwa wyomingensis1 site
- Pisidium1 site
- Protolambda florencae1 site
- Richardoestesia isosceles1 site
- Testudines1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Protelliptio (Plesielliptio) priscus, 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- Fauna and correlation of the Ravenscrag Formation (Paleocene) of southwestern Saskatchewan5
- Revised identification of a reported Iguanodon-grade ornithopod tooth from the Scollard Formation, Alberta, Canada1
- Trichopterodomus leonardi, a New Genus and Species of Psychomyiid Caddisfly (Insecta: Trichoptera) Represented by Retreats from the Paleocene of North Dakota1
- The Cretaceous-Tertiary transition of Alberta1
Each of the 8 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 Protelliptio (Plesielliptio) priscus 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 Protelliptio (Plesielliptio) priscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protelliptio (Plesielliptio) priscus 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 itElliptio (Plesielliptio) through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek and Hayden 1856)