Craticularia

Craticularia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CraticulariinaePBDB
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 126 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 81 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 81 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 59 of 81 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 81 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 81 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 81 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 81 occurrencesEocene196–191 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences191–185 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences185–180 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences180–175 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences175–170 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences170–164 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences164–159 Mya — about 4 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 43 occurrences154–149 Mya — about 12 occurrences149–143 Mya — about 2 occurrences143–138 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences138–133 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences133–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence112–106 Mya — about 1 occurrence106–101 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–75 Mya — about 3 occurrences75–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–43 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences174.7 Mya48.07 Mya196 Mya38 Mya

81 occurrences of Craticularia 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

81 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

14 formations

Calcaires Lites — 45.78°N, 5.52°ECouches de Birmensdorf — 46.25°N, 5.67°EIlsenburg — 51.83°N, 10.78°ELa Manga — 35.95°S, 69.98°WZawodzie — 50.43°N, 19.55°EZawodzie — 50.47°N, 19.55°EPeral — 37.12°N, 8.18°WAbadia — 38.98°N, 9.07°WMisone limestone — 45.95°N, 10.83°EChiampo — 45.53°N, 11.25°E"Siphonia Marl" — 51.92°N, 10.47°EUpper Chalk — 50.78°N, 0.00°ENeuburger Weiß — 48.73°N, 11.18°EJasna Gora — 50.07°N, 19.62°EToolonga — 25.97°S, 114.28°E

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The named rock units Craticularia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Craticularia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Craticularia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

595 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Craticularia, 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

27 references

Each of the 81 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. 15 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 Craticularia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Craticularia 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 itCraticulariinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zittel 1877