Limulitella

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LimulidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Xiphosura
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Xiphosura
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Xiphosura
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Xiphosurida

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 201.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 199.5 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 2 of 15 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 12 of 15 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 15 occurrences252–250 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences250–248 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 3 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 7 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 1 occurrence243–241 Mya — about 1 occurrence241–239 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences200–198 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences247 Mya201.4 Mya252 Mya198 Mya

15 occurrences of Limulitella on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

15 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

6 formations

Grès à Voltzia — 48.91°N, 7.20°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.82°N, 7.24°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.69°N, 7.38°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.78°N, 7.25°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.64°N, 7.45°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.53°N, 7.43°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.64°N, 7.44°ERybinsk — 58.02°N, 39.04°EOuled Chebbi — 33.41°N, 10.42°EKirchaou — 33.41°N, 10.42°EJena — 51.14°N, 11.74°EVossenveld — 51.97°N, 6.78°E

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The named rock units Limulitella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Limulitella and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Limulitella and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

73 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Limulitella, 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

11 references

Each of the 15 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Limulitella 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 itLimulidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Størmer 1952