Entobia

Searched as Entobia sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Entobia as the accepted name.

Entobia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ClionaidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Clionaidae
Life habit
boringPBDB, for Clionaidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Clionaidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 157 million years on record.

The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 72 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 11 of 72 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 72 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 22 of 72 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 72 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 72 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 72 occurrencesMiocene — about 16 of 72 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 72 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 72 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 5 occurrences157–152 Mya — about 3 occurrences152–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences124–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences107–101 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–90 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences90–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–67 Mya — about 11 occurrences67–62 Mya — about 5 occurrences62–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences51–45 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences45–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–5.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.6–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences157.9 Mya11.7 ka169 Mya0 Mya

72 occurrences of Entobia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

72 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

27 formations

Jagüel — 38.10°S, 68.39°WFalmouth — 18.50°N, 77.33°WGrès verts helvétiques — 46.04°N, 6.62°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.98°N, 6.69°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.13°N, 6.80°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.86°N, 6.45°EChhasra — 23.36°N, 68.82°EChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChoptank — 38.41°N, 76.48°WChoptank — 38.62°N, 76.12°WUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.95°N, 14.35°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.33°ECalcari a Briozoi e Litotamni — 41.42°N, 13.97°ECalcari a Briozoi e Litotamni — 41.45°N, 13.92°EBarton Clay — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSüntel — 51.90°N, 10.50°ELefipan — 42.73°S, 69.98°WCalcaires de Fiz — 45.98°N, 6.79°ESant Corneli — 42.20°N, 1.07°EPortland Limestone — 50.52°N, 2.43°WPakhna — 34.97°N, 34.07°ERoda — 42.30°N, 0.53°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.60°EPacacua — 9.97°N, 84.20°WTuira — 8.19°N, 77.71°WCala di Labra — 41.37°N, 9.18°EEllipsactinia Limestones — 41.83°N, 13.97°EKamar-e-Mehdi — 33.00°N, 56.50°EMonterey — 33.59°N, 117.71°WClayton Limestone — 34.39°N, 92.85°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°W

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The named rock units Entobia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Entobia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Entobia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,121 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Entobia, 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

33 references

Each of the 72 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. 21 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 content2

Picture of Entobia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bronn 1838