Kalpinella pateraeformis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
KalpinellaPBDB
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 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 152.21 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 6 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 6 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 6 occurrencesLate Cretaceous153–151 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149.2 Mya93.9 Mya153 Mya89 Mya

6 occurrences of Kalpinella pateraeformis 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

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

2 formations

Neuburger Weiß — 48.73°N, 11.18°EUpper Greensand — 51.21°N, 2.18°W

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The named rock units Kalpinella pateraeformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kalpinella pateraeformis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Kalpinella pateraeformis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

123 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Kalpinella pateraeformis, 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

5 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

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

No 3D scan of Kalpinella pateraeformis 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 itKalpinella through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hinde 1883