Pyropsis coloradoensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PyropsisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Pyropsis coloradoensis 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
4 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Pyropsis coloradoensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pyropsis coloradoensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pyropsis coloradoensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- Cymbophora4 sites
- Gyrodes4 sites
- Baculites yokoyamai3 sites
- Modiolus3 sites
- Phelopteria gastrodes3 sites
- Placenticeras cumminsi3 sites
- Veniella mortoni3 sites
- Carota2 sites
- Collignoniceras woollgari2 sites
- Crassostrea2 sites
- Gyrodes depressa2 sites
- Laternula2 sites
- Liopistha (Psilomya)2 sites
- Pinna2 sites
- Pleuriocardia (Dochmocardia) pauperculum2 sites
- Scaphites2 sites
- Tectaplica2 sites
- Turritella2 sites
- ? Gregania sp.1 site
- ? Mathilia sp.1 site
- Acirsa1 site
- Anchura1 site
- Aphrodina1 site
- Bellifusus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pyropsis coloradoensis, 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
3 references- Stratigraphy and revision of nomenclature of upper Cenomanian to Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) rocks of west-central New Mexico2
- Paleontology of the Greenhorn cylcothem (Cretaceous: late Cenomanian to middle Turonian) at Black Mesa, northeastern Arizona1
- Mid-Cretaceous (Turonian) ammonite fauna from Fence Lake area of west-central New Mexico1
Each of the 4 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 Pyropsis coloradoensis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Pyropsis coloradoensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pyropsis coloradoensis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itPyropsis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stanton 1893