Globularia formosa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlobulariaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunal, solitaryPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- inner shelf,marinePBDB
Time the record covers
At least 6.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 143.1 Mya.
12 occurrences of Globularia formosa on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
12 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
3 formations
- Tataouine Formation7
- Dhruma Formation · Shaqra Group3
- Tuwaiq Mt.Lst. Formation · Shaqra Group1
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The named rock units Globularia formosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Globularia formosa and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Globularia formosa and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Actinostreon gregarea3 sites
- Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus3 sites
- Acrosalenia2 sites
- Africogryphaea2 sites
- Ampullospira2 sites
- Anisocardia2 sites
- Ceratomya wimmisensis2 sites
- Costigervillia crassicosta2 sites
- Eligmus2 sites
- Liostrea2 sites
- Monodiadema2 sites
- Musculus somaliensis2 sites
- Pholadomya2 sites
- Pholadomya (Bucardiomya)2 sites
- Protocardia intexta2 sites
- Pseudocidaris2 sites
- Purpuroidea2 sites
- Sellithyris engeli2 sites
- Terebratula bussoni2 sites
- Terebratula matmatensis2 sites
- Acesta1 site
- Actinostreon1 site
- Amicytheridea1 site
- Aporrhainae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Globularia formosa, 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
3 references- Palökologie benthischer Faunengemeinschaften und Taxonomie der Bivalven im Jura von Südtunesien7
- Le Jurassique D`Arabie Centrale4
- Lazar, 20061
Each of the 12 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 Globularia formosa
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Globularia formosa was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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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What may have been alongside itGlobularia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Morris and Lycett 1851