Goniolina

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

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. 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 least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 3 of 4 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous155–154 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152.21 Mya125.77 Mya155.5 Mya120.7 Mya

4 occurrences of Goniolina on record, most of them in the Late 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

4 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

3 formations

Süntel — 51.90°N, 10.50°EPainten — 48.92°N, 11.58°EReuchenette — 47.40°N, 7.03°E

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The named rock units Goniolina 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.

Goniolina and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Goniolina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

80 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Goniolina, 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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 Goniolina

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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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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What may have been alongside itFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Saporta 1891