Jupiteria

Jupiteria

Dall, 1890 · CC0 · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NuculaninaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculanidae

Time the record covers

At least 246 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Permian — about 0 of 145 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 3 of 145 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 145 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 145 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 145 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 145 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 145 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 12 of 145 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 33 of 145 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 54 of 145 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 145 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 145 occurrencesMiocene — about 13 of 145 occurrencesPliocene — about 12 of 145 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 145 occurrences254–245 Mya — about 3 occurrences245–237 Mya — about 1 occurrence127–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences110–101 Mya — about 9 occurrences101–93 Mya — about 2 occurrences93–85 Mya — about 10 occurrences85–76 Mya — about 12 occurrences76–68 Mya — about 8 occurrences68–59 Mya — about 53 occurrences59–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–8.5 Mya — about 9 occurrences8.5–0 Mya — about 20 occurrences247 Mya774 ka254 Mya0 Mya

145 occurrences of Jupiteria on record, most of them in the Paleocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

145 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

46 formations

Kincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 31.67°N, 96.47°WKincaid — 30.80°N, 96.95°WKincaid — 30.32°N, 97.43°WKincaid — 30.00°N, 97.60°WKincaid — 31.12°N, 96.80°WKincaid — 30.08°N, 97.50°WKincaid — 32.98°N, 95.93°WKincaid — 29.88°N, 97.67°WKincaid — 33.13°N, 96.10°WKincaid — 32.58°N, 96.30°WOkarahia Sandstone — 42.57°S, 173.52°EOkarahia Sandstone — 42.55°S, 173.50°EPorters Creek — 32.37°N, 88.04°WPorters Creek — 32.12°N, 87.26°WPorters Creek — 31.99°N, 87.29°WPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.45°WPorters Creek — 32.23°N, 88.00°WWills Point — 30.17°N, 97.46°WWills Point — 30.08°N, 97.50°WWills Point — 30.27°N, 97.73°WWills Point — 31.67°N, 96.47°WWills Point — 30.33°N, 97.37°WWills Point — 32.98°N, 95.93°WWills Point — 31.12°N, 96.80°WAstoria — 44.73°N, 124.06°WTe Wera Sandstone — 38.41°S, 177.31°EKarekare Siltstone — 38.41°S, 177.31°EPigeon Point — 37.19°N, 122.40°WKauru — 45.06°S, 170.73°EKauru — 44.79°S, 170.51°EKauru — 45.05°S, 170.77°ETarapuhi Grit — 42.57°S, 173.52°EConway Siltstone — 42.57°S, 173.52°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WTogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.01°N, 83.06°WMoonkinu — 11.80°S, 130.40°ECaimito — 9.16°N, 79.87°WGatun — 9.33°N, 79.90°WPierre Shale — 40.06°N, 106.39°WPierre Shale — 43.26°N, 104.27°WPakaurangi — 36.22°S, 174.28°ECareaga Sandstone — 34.84°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WReklaw — 30.00°N, 97.25°WReklaw — 30.81°N, 96.65°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.64°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.68°WLondon Clay — 51.08°N, 1.17°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 63.00°W

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The named rock units Jupiteria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Jupiteria and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Jupiteria and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

2,164 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 114 sites for Jupiteria, 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

40 references

Each of the 145 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. 28 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 Jupiteria

Credit
Dall, 1890
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itNuculaninae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bellardi 1875)