Struthiochenopus

Struthiochenopus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StruthiopterinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 35 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 27 of 35 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 35 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 35 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 35 occurrencesMiocene73–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 12 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 12 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences66 Mya20.45 Mya73 Mya15 Mya

35 occurrences of Struthiochenopus 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

35 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

7 formations

Sobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WRanquil — 37.20°S, 73.49°WNavidad — 33.90°S, 71.84°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.12°S, 68.48°WIpún Beds — 44.61°S, 74.76°W

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The named rock units Struthiochenopus 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.

Struthiochenopus and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Struthiochenopus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

136 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Struthiochenopus, 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

6 references

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 Struthiochenopus

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itStruthiopterinae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zinsmeister and Griffin 1995