Casearia

Casearia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CaseariinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 204 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 25 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 14 of 25 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 25 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 25 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 8 of 25 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 25 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 25 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 25 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 25 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 25 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 25 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 25 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 25 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 2 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 4 occurrences226–218 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences218–209 Mya — about 4 occurrences209–201 Mya — about 4 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–153 Mya — about 6 occurrences153–145 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–137 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–8.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences227.3 Mya23.04 Mya242 Mya0 Mya

25 occurrences of Casearia on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

25 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

6 formations

Nayband — 30.97°N, 52.99°ENayband — 33.60°N, 51.00°ENayband — 34.13°N, 58.20°ENayband — 31.82°N, 54.34°EHanwang — 31.45°N, 104.17°ECulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WCalcaires Lites — 45.78°N, 5.52°ECouches de Birmensdorf — 46.25°N, 5.67°EDachstein — 47.63°N, 13.17°E

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The named rock units Casearia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Casearia and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Casearia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

453 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Casearia, 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

12 references

Each of the 25 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 content2

Picture of Casearia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

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What may have been alongside itCaseariinae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Quenstedt 1858