Areopsammia alacca

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AreopsammiaPBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Areopsammia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Areopsammia
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Areopsammia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Areopsammia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Areopsammia

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.

Late Cretaceous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.7 Mya65.5 Mya

4 occurrences of Areopsammia alacca 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

4 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

Maastricht — 50.82°N, 5.70°E

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The named rock units Areopsammia alacca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Areopsammia alacca and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Areopsammia alacca and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Areopsammia alacca, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 4 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

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

No 3D scan of Areopsammia alacca 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 itAreopsammia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morren 1828)