Betelgeusia reidi

No picture of Betelgeusia reidi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Betelgeusia reidi itself, so it was not used. 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 Betelgeusia reidi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CouloniaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Astropectinidae
Life habit
semi-infaunal, solitaryPBDB, for Astropectinidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Astropectinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Astropectinidae

Time the record covers

At most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 6 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 6 occurrencesLate Cretaceous106–106 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106.8 Mya93.4 Mya

6 occurrences of Betelgeusia reidi on record, most of them in the Early 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

6 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

3 formations

Pawpaw — 32.84°N, 97.29°WPawpaw — 32.70°N, 97.30°WPawpaw — 32.63°N, 97.40°WGrayson Marl — 32.77°N, 97.22°WDel Rio — 31.55°N, 97.15°W

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

Betelgeusia reidi and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Betelgeusia reidi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Betelgeusia reidi, 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

1 reference

Each of the 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Betelgeusia reidi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Betelgeusia reidi itself, so it was not used.

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 Betelgeusia reidi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Betelgeusia reidi 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 itCoulonia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blake and Reid 1998