Esteria sp.

A picture published with the record for Esteria sp.. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 264.28 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 5 of 5 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 5 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences264.8 Mya246.5 Mya

5 occurrences of Esteria sp. on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

5 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

1 formation

Bugarikta — 64.00°N, 100.00°E

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The named rock units Esteria sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Esteria sp. and its relatives

Permian

Where Esteria sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

29 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Esteria sp., 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

Each of the 5 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

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Picture of Esteria sp.

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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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.