Pseudocucullaea

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CucullaeidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Arcoidea
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Arcoidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Arcoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Cucullaeidae
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya.
35 occurrences of Pseudocucullaea 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
35 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
6 formations
- Mungo River Formation15
- Celendin Formation4
- Logbadjeck Formation2
- Cajamarca-Celendin Formation1
- Jessu Formation1
- Awgu Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Pseudocucullaea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pseudocucullaea and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pseudocucullaea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
254 taxa- Cardium subperobliquum5 sites
- Nicaisolopha nicaisei5 sites
- Plicatula5 sites
- Trigonarca angolensis5 sites
- Trigonarca camerunensis5 sites
- Veniella5 sites
- Cataceramus bantu4 sites
- Plicatula hirsuta4 sites
- Strepsidura gracilis4 sites
- Turritella nodosa4 sites
- Veniella undata4 sites
- Volutomorpha similis4 sites
- Agelasina plenodonta3 sites
- Anofia aro3 sites
- Baluchicardia3 sites
- Bizarrus incertus3 sites
- Brachidontes3 sites
- Cardium3 sites
- Fragum3 sites
- Granocardium kruschi3 sites
- Gymnarus fraasi3 sites
- Helicaulax latealata3 sites
- Liopistha3 sites
- Mesocallista3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Pseudocucullaea, 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- Die Oberkreide vom Mungofluß in Kamerun und ihre Fauna6
- Über Pseudocucullaea, einen neuen Taxodontentypus6
- Cretaceous bivalves from Ecuador and northern Peru5
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages5
- Biogeography of the Saharan Cretaceous and Paleocene epicontinental transgressions3
- The stratigraphy of the southern Cameroons3
- Nouvelles données sur les Mollusques et autres macro-organismes campaniens de Sikoum (Centre-Est du sous bassin de Douala-Cameroun): intérêts bio-chronologiques et paléo-écologiques2
- Upper Cretaceous Mollusca (Lamellibranchia and Gastropoda) from Nigeria2
- The Geology of parts of Adamawa, Bauchi and Bornu Provinces in North-Eastern Nigeria1
- Mollusques fossiles du Crétace de la Côte occidentale d'Afrique du Cameroun à l'Angola. II. - Lamellibranches1
- O Cretaceo da Parahyba do Norte1
Each of the 35 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 Pseudocucullaea
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No 3D scan of Pseudocucullaea 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 itCucullaeidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Solger 1903