Elasmoierea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StellispongiinaePBDB
- 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 38 million years on record.
The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 66 Mya.
10 occurrences of Elasmoierea 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
10 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Zone de Pierre jaune Formation3
- Sandgate Formation · Lower Greensand Group2
- Vuache Formation1
- Neuburger Weiß Formation1
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The named rock units Elasmoierea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Elasmoierea and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Elasmoierea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
196 taxa- Ceriopora3 sites
- Cidaris3 sites
- Raphidonema pustulatum3 sites
- Arca2 sites
- Arctica2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Conocoelia crassa2 sites
- Corynella foraminosa2 sites
- Cupulochonia2 sites
- Diplopodia (Pseudodiadema)2 sites
- Elasmocoelia crassa2 sites
- Elasmocoelia mantelli2 sites
- Goniopygus2 sites
- Hemicidaris2 sites
- Lithophaga2 sites
- Oculospongia2 sites
- Oculospongia dilatata2 sites
- Peronidella2 sites
- Pholadomya2 sites
- Phymosoma2 sites
- Raphidonema contortum2 sites
- Raphidonema farringdonense2 sites
- Raphidonema macropora2 sites
- Raphidonema porcatum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Elasmoierea, 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
6 references- Die Typus-Profile des Valanginien und Hauterivien3
- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand2
- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)2
- Die Schwammfauna der Oberkreide von Neuburg (Donau) [The Upper Cretaceous sponge fauna from Neuburg (Donau)]1
- Contribution à l'étude du Néocomien des environs de Gray1
- Jura Vaudois et Neuchatelois1
Each of the 10 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 content1
Picture of Elasmoierea
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Elasmoierea 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 itStellispongiinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fromentel 1860