Heterosalenia

Heterosalenia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcrosaleniidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Salenioida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Salenioida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Salenioida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 3 of 6 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 6 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 6 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 1 occurrence164–160 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–64 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences161.5 Mya72.2 Mya167 Mya64 Mya

6 occurrences of Heterosalenia on record. 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

6 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

Dhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 24.89°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°ETitanosarcolites Limestone — 18.30°N, 77.88°WGuinea Corn — 18.15°N, 77.33°W

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The named rock units Heterosalenia 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.

Found in the same rock

89 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Heterosalenia, 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

Each of the 6 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 Heterosalenia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Heterosalenia 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cotteau