Aemula

Aemula is an extinct genus of brachiopods that lived during the Cretaceous period. The pedunculate brachiopod species Aemula inusitata had lived on the bodies of larger animals which served for enough feeding surface, since no large attachment sites were available on the Maastrichtian chalk of the sea floor. It was a very small animal, having a maximum length of 7 mm, and is believed to have been short lived as interpreted from its growth lines.

No picture of Aemula 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 Aemula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlatidiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Platidiidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Platidiidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Platidiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 28 of 32 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 32 occurrencesPaleocene84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–71 Mya — about 3 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 3 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 3 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72.2 Mya66 Mya84.1 Mya61.2 Mya

32 occurrences of Aemula 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

32 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

1 formation

Ciply-Malogne Phosphatic Chalk — 50.42°N, 3.94°E

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The named rock units Aemula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aemula and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Aemula and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

52 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Aemula, 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

4 references

Each of the 32 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

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Sonora aemula · UCM:Herp:UCM:Herp:67223

No picture of Aemula 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 Aemula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itPlatidiinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.