Titanolepas tuberculata
No picture of Titanolepas tuberculata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Titanolepas tuberculata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TitanolepasPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cirripedia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cirripedia
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Cirripedia
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Cirripedia
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Titanolepas tuberculata 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
3 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 Titanolepas tuberculata 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.
Titanolepas tuberculata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Titanolepas tuberculata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Arcoscalpellum quadratum1 site
- Balanus cretacea1 site
- Cretiscalpellum striatum1 site
- Cretiscalpellum unguis1 site
- Diotascalpellum fossula1 site
- Fallaxlepas fallax1 site
- Pollicipes bronnii1 site
- Pollicipes costatus1 site
- Pollicipes cuspidatus1 site
- Pollicipes elongatus1 site
- Pycnolepas scalaris1 site
- Scalpellum1 site
- Scalpellum augustum1 site
- Scalpellum crassum1 site
- Scalpellum kamajkense1 site
- Scalpellum maximum1 site
- Scalpellum nitens1 site
- Scalpellum parvulum1 site
- Zeugmatolepas mockleri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Titanolepas tuberculata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Cirripedes from the Cenomanian Chalk Marl of Cambridge2
- Die Crustaceen der böhmischen Kreideformation1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Titanolepas tuberculata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Titanolepas tuberculata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Titanolepas tuberculata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTitanolepas through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Darwin 1851)