Clausocaris lithographica
No picture of Clausocaris lithographica 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 Clausocaris lithographica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClausocarisPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Thylacocephala
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Thylacocephala
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Thylacocephala
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Thylacocephala
Time the record covers
At most 4.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 145.06 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Clausocaris lithographica on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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
1 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Clausocaris lithographica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Clausocaris lithographica and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Clausocaris lithographica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Celaenoteuthis incerta1 site
- Cymatophlebia longialata1 site
- Engeseriteuthis arcuatus1 site
- Euparasteleopteron viohli1 site
- Malmocimbrophlebia buergeri1 site
- Mayrocaris bucculata1 site
- Nannogomphus buergeri1 site
- Parasteleopteron guischardi1 site
- Prolystra lithographica1 site
- Tipunia intermedia1 site
- Urogomphus giganteus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Clausocaris lithographica, 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 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Clausocaris lithographica 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 Clausocaris lithographica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Clausocaris lithographica was found in Sketchfab.
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 itClausocaris through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Oppenheim 1888)