Heterostinia

No picture of Heterostinia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Heterostinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeterostiniinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lithistida

Time the record covers

At least 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 5 of 22 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 22 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 15 of 22 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 22 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 1 occurrence153–150 Mya — about 3 occurrences150–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences117–113 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 3 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152.21 Mya72.2 Mya157 Mya64 Mya

22 occurrences of Heterostinia 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

22 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

2 formations

White Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°ENeuburger Weiß — 48.73°N, 11.18°E

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The named rock units Heterostinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heterostinia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Heterostinia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

584 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Heterostinia, 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

7 references

Each of the 22 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

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No picture of Heterostinia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Heterostinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Heterostinia 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itHeterostiniinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zittel 1878