Gibbithyris
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GibbithyridinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Gibbithyrididae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Gibbithyrididae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Gibbithyrididae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 4.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 85.7 Mya.
29 occurrences of Gibbithyris on record, most of them in the Late 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
29 occurrences- Late 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Gibbithyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gibbithyris and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Gibbithyris and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Inoceramus (Inoceramus) cuvierii22 sites
- Inoceramus apicalis22 sites
- Orbirhynchia cuvieri7 sites
- Mytiloides4 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata2 sites
- Cyclothyris compressa2 sites
- Discoides2 sites
- Galerites laevis2 sites
- Mytiloides labiatus2 sites
- Retispongia sp.2 sites
- Acrolamna acuminata1 site
- Asteroidea1 site
- Asteroidea indet.1 site
- Calliderma1 site
- Caratomus affinis1 site
- Caratomus althi1 site
- Carneithyris carnea1 site
- Ceriopora1 site
- Cidaris1 site
- Cidaris vesiculosa1 site
- Cirripedia1 site
- Collignoniceras woollgari1 site
- Concinnithyris1 site
- Concinnithyris obesa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Gibbithyris, 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
5 references- Die Oberkreide der Sack-Mulde bei Alfeld (Cenoman-Unter-Coniac) Lithologie, Biostratigraphie und Inoceramen23
- O średnich warstwach krédowych w krakowskim okręgu3
- Les Goniasteridae (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) jurassiques et crétacés de France. Taphonomie, systématique, biostratigraphie, paléobiogéographie, évolution.1
- The correlation of the lower chalk of south-east England1
- Les Ophiures de la Craie des Environs de Sens1
Each of the 29 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 Gibbithyris
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Gibbithyris 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 itGibbithyridinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.