Glomerula gordialis

Glomerula gordialis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GlomerulaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 18 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 18 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 18 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 18 occurrencesLate Cretaceous167–164 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences164–161 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences161–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–148 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences138–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 2 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–112 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences93–90 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161.5 Mya83.6 Mya167 Mya70 Mya

18 occurrences of Glomerula gordialis 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

18 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

11 formations

Grès verts helvétiques — 45.89°N, 6.48°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.97°N, 6.44°EAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WSüntel — 51.90°N, 10.50°ESteeple Ashton Coral Bed — 51.33°N, 1.83°WCampanien 1-2 — 45.75°N, 0.47°WBranderfleck — 47.67°N, 12.17°EMatmor — 30.93°N, 34.97°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.60°ELewes Nodular Chalk — 51.25°N, 2.16°WMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°EBandurrias — 27.32°S, 70.23°W

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The named rock units Glomerula gordialis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glomerula gordialis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Glomerula gordialis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

670 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Glomerula gordialis, 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

14 references

Each of the 18 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. 2 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

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Picture of Glomerula gordialis

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No 3D scan of Glomerula gordialis 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 itGlomerula through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Simpson 1985