Thecidea papillata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThecideaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Thecideida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Thecideida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Thecideida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Thecidea papillata 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
8 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Thecidea papillata 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.
Thecidea papillata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Thecidea papillata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Argyrotheca popielae2 sites
- Dalligas nobilis2 sites
- Acutostrea1 site
- Agerostrea ungulatus1 site
- Anomiidae1 site
- Applinocrinus1 site
- Argyrotheca coniuncta1 site
- Argyrotheca microscopica1 site
- Asteroids indet.1 site
- Baculites1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Calappidae1 site
- Cancellothyridinae1 site
- Cidaroida1 site
- Comatulida1 site
- Decapoda1 site
- Dhondtichlamys1 site
- Diplodetus1 site
- Echinogalerus1 site
- Exogyrinae1 site
- Faujasia apicalis1 site
- Gauthieria1 site
- Gisilina jasmundi1 site
- Graphularia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Thecidea papillata, 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- Maastrichtian brachiopods from Ciply: palaeoecological and stratigraphical significance6
- Late Maastrichtian and Early Palaeocene index macrofossils in the Maastrichtian type area (SE Netherlands, NE Belgium)1
- Campanian and Maastrichtian ammonites from the Mons Basin and adajcent areas (Belgium)1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Thecidea papillata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Thecidea papillata 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.
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What may have been alongside itThecidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (von Schlotheim 1813)