Hexasaturnalis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HexasaturnalinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Radiolaria

Time the record covers

At least 82 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 201 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 201 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 41 of 201 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 40 of 201 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 66 of 201 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 50 of 201 occurrencesLate Jurassic249–246 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences246–242 Mya — about 1 occurrence242–239 Mya — about 1 occurrence239–235 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences235–232 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences232–229 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences229–225 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences225–222 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences222–218 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences218–215 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences215–212 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences212–208 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences208–205 Mya — about 7 occurrences205–201 Mya — about 28 occurrences201–198 Mya — about 3 occurrences198–195 Mya — about 5 occurrences195–191 Mya — about 3 occurrences191–188 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences188–185 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 8 occurrences181–178 Mya — about 11 occurrences178–174 Mya — about 12 occurrences174–171 Mya — about 29 occurrences171–168 Mya — about 26 occurrences168–164 Mya — about 5 occurrences164–161 Mya — about 5 occurrences161–157 Mya — about 20 occurrences157–154 Mya — about 21 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 6 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence237 Mya154.8 Mya249 Mya147 Mya

201 occurrences of Hexasaturnalis 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

201 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

14 formations

Sandilands — 52.77°N, 131.56°WSandilands — 52.77°N, 131.55°WSandilands — 53.91°N, 133.16°WSandilands — 53.03°N, 131.88°WRosso Ammonitico Medio — 38.00°N, 12.83°EPhantom Creek — 53.39°N, 132.27°WPotami — 37.73°N, 23.02°ESan Hipolito — 29.99°N, 113.98°WFonzaso — 46.05°N, 11.88°ECamarena — 37.57°N, 3.50°WCalcare Selcifero di Fonzaso — 46.02°N, 11.75°ESfanta Ana Olistolith — 45.68°N, 21.72°ESid'r — 22.82°N, 56.89°EGuwayza — 22.89°N, 57.74°EGuwayza — 22.74°N, 57.26°EXialu Chert — 29.02°N, 89.03°EWahrah — 22.74°N, 57.26°EKaramba — 34.32°N, 76.23°E

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The named rock units Hexasaturnalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 92 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hexasaturnalis and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Hexasaturnalis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

600 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 91 sites for Hexasaturnalis, 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

29 references

Each of the 201 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. 17 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

Media content0

No picture of Hexasaturnalis 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 Hexasaturnalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Hexasaturnalis 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 itHexasaturnalinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kozur and Mostler 1983