Bathysiphon

Bathysiphon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BathysiphonidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 304 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Carboniferous — about 19 of 181 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 181 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 181 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 181 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 181 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 181 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 181 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 181 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 181 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 47 of 181 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 181 occurrencesEocene — about 44 of 181 occurrencesOligocene — about 23 of 181 occurrencesMiocene — about 28 of 181 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 181 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 181 occurrences322–311 Mya — about 6 occurrences311–300 Mya — about 13 occurrences246–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–225 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences171–161 Mya — about 5 occurrences161–150 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences150–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139–129 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences129–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–107 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences107–96 Mya — about 6 occurrences96–86 Mya — about 14 occurrences86–75 Mya — about 10 occurrences75–64 Mya — about 21 occurrences64–54 Mya — about 10 occurrences54–43 Mya — about 19 occurrences43–32 Mya — about 22 occurrences32–21 Mya — about 27 occurrences21–11 Mya — about 19 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences307 Mya2.58 Mya322 Mya0 Mya

181 occurrences of Bathysiphon 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

181 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

26 formations

Wewoka — 35.04°N, 96.36°WChungliao — 24.03°N, 120.65°EKeasey — 45.87°N, 123.32°WMonte Cassio Flysch — 44.53°N, 10.92°ESnow Hill Island — 64.22°S, 57.20°WDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°EWuchihshan — 24.03°N, 120.65°EWestgate — 51.58°N, 111.00°WChenaibo — 45.42°N, 142.02°EIhungia — 40.35°S, 176.28°EDakhla — 26.52°N, 27.66°EAbu Durba — 28.65°N, 33.28°EMatanuska — 61.87°N, 147.35°WBelle Fourche — 49.50°N, 112.17°WHochmoos — 47.60°N, 13.48°EEbelsberg — 48.21°N, 14.22°EPoronai — 43.26°N, 141.89°EAbu Qada/Raha — 28.68°N, 32.42°EIlundain Marls — 42.77°N, 1.80°WGhazij — 30.13°N, 67.26°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.93°EPebas — 7.36°S, 74.96°WMargas de Pamplona — 42.89°N, 0.94°WVaqueros — 37.15°N, 122.14°W

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The named rock units Bathysiphon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 107 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bathysiphon and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

928 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 155 sites for Bathysiphon, 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

47 references

Each of the 181 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. 35 further references are not listed. 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 Bathysiphon

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itBathysiphonidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sars 1872