Hyposalenia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HyposaleniidaePBDB
- 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 59 million years on record.
The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 61.66 Mya.
43 occurrences of Hyposalenia 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
43 occurrencesThese 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
18 formations
- Grès verts helvétiques Formation6
- Ferruginous Sands Formation · Lower Greensand Group3
- Sandgate Formation · Lower Greensand Group3
- Grizzle Formation3
- Atherfield Clay Formation3
- Perte-du-Rhone Formation2
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The named rock units Hyposalenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hyposalenia and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Hyposalenia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
603 taxa- Echinogalerus16 sites
- Catopygus15 sites
- Hemiaster14 sites
- Tetragramma variolare14 sites
- Discoides13 sites
- Holaster12 sites
- Polydiadema12 sites
- Coenholectypus excisus11 sites
- Goniopygus menardi10 sites
- Periaster10 sites
- Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris)10 sites
- Tiaromma9 sites
- Archiacia sandalina8 sites
- Tetragramma8 sites
- Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum7 sites
- Gastropoda7 sites
- Nucleopygus similis7 sites
- Salenia7 sites
- Bivalvia6 sites
- Codiopsis doma6 sites
- Conulus6 sites
- Leymeriella tardefurcata6 sites
- Phymosoma6 sites
- Plicatula6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Hyposalenia, 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- Paléoécologie et paléobiogéographie des faunes d'échinides du Cénomanien nord-aquitain (Charente-Maritime, France)10
- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand8
- Les grès verts helvétiques (Aptien moyen-Albien supérieur) de Haute-Savoie, Valais et Vaud (Alpes occidentales franco-suisses)7
- Cenomanian and Lower Turonian echinoderms from Wilmington, south-east Devon, England4
- The stratigraphy of the Atherfield Clay Formation (Lower Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) at the type and other localities in southern England3
- Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and sedimentary dynamics of the Lower Cretaceous deposits on the northern side of the western High Atlas (Morocco)2
- Nouvelles données sur l'Albien de la Chartreuse et du Vercors2
- Une carapace de crabe préservée dans le moule interne d'un gastéropode du Cénomanien de Basse-Normandie (France)1
- An ‘Elvis’ echinoid, Nucleopygus (Jolyclypus) jolyi, from the Cenomanian of France: phylogenetic analysis, sexual dimorphism and neotype designation1
- The Late Lower Albian Invertebrate Fauna of the Río Hatillo Formation of Pueblo Viejo, Dominican Republic1
- Palaeobiology and biogeography of a Danian echinoid fauna of Lower Austria1
- Un faciès de type falun dans le Cénomanien basal de Charente-Maritime (France)1
Each of the 43 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
Media content1
Picture of Hyposalenia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hyposalenia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHyposaleniidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Desor 1858