Elasmocoelia crassa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElasmoiereaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Calcarea
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 113.2 Mya.
2 occurrences of Elasmocoelia crassa 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
2 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
- Sandgate Formation · Lower Greensand Group1
- Zone de Pierre jaune Formation1
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The named rock units Elasmocoelia crassa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Elasmocoelia crassa and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Elasmocoelia crassa and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
105 taxa- Ceriopora2 sites
- Cidaris2 sites
- Actinospongia1 site
- Actinostromaria faringdonensis1 site
- Alia1 site
- Amorphofungia1 site
- Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) boussingaulti1 site
- Anglonautilus undulatus1 site
- Arca1 site
- Arctica1 site
- Arenaciarcula fittoni1 site
- Astrocoenia1 site
- Barroisia1 site
- Berenicea1 site
- Bifolium1 site
- Burgundia1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Cellulipora1 site
- Chenendroscyphia crassa1 site
- Corynella foraminosa1 site
- Cribroscyphia1 site
- Cupulochonia1 site
- Cyclothyris latissima1 site
- Cyrtothyris cantabridgiensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Elasmocoelia crassa, 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
2 references- Die Typus-Profile des Valanginien und Hauterivien1
- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Elasmocoelia crassa 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 Elasmocoelia crassa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elasmocoelia crassa 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 itElasmoierea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fromentel 1861)