Clytiella spinifera

No picture of Clytiella spinifera 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 Clytiella spinifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ClytiellaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Clytiopsidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 215.38 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 211.18 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 2 occurrencesLate Triassic238–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences212–212 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233.6 Mya215.38 Mya237.5 Mya210.7 Mya

2 occurrences of Clytiella spinifera 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

2 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

2 formations

Hauptdolomit — 47.73°N, 13.14°EReingrabener Schiefer — 47.88°N, 15.07°E

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

Clytiella spinifera and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Clytiella spinifera and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Clytiella spinifera, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 content0

No picture of Clytiella spinifera 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 Clytiella spinifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itClytiella through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Glaessner 1931