Spyridoceramus
No picture of Spyridoceramus 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 Spyridoceramus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- InoceramidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 28 million years on record.
The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya.
14 occurrences of Spyridoceramus 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
14 occurrencesThese 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
- Opoka Formation4
- marly chalk Formation1
- Kangbacunkou Formation · Kangpa Group1
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The named rock units Spyridoceramus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spyridoceramus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Spyridoceramus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
172 taxa- Spondylus fimbriatus8 sites
- Pseudolimea7 sites
- Dhondtichlamys6 sites
- Lyriochlamys6 sites
- Nuculana6 sites
- Pinna cretacea6 sites
- Plagiostoma hoperi6 sites
- Pycnodonte vesicularis6 sites
- Spondylus6 sites
- Atreta nilssoni5 sites
- Camptonectes virgatus5 sites
- Dhondtichlamys pulchellus5 sites
- Entolium membranaceum5 sites
- Hyotissa semiplana5 sites
- Merklinia variabilis5 sites
- Ctenoides4 sites
- Limatula4 sites
- Limatula decussata4 sites
- Neithea (Neithea) sexcostata4 sites
- Acutostrea incurva3 sites
- Gyropleura3 sites
- Limopsis3 sites
- Mimachlamys cretosa3 sites
- Placunopsis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Spyridoceramus, 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- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages8
- Maastrichtian non-cephalopod mollusks: Scaphopoda, Gastropoda and Bivalvia of the Middle Vistula Valley, central Poland5
- Cretaceous bivalves of Kangpa Group, South Xizang, China and their biogeography1
Each of the 14 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Spyridoceramus 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 Spyridoceramus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spyridoceramus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itInoceramidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cox 1969