Linthia hanoverensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LinthiaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Spatangoida
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Spatangoida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Spatangoida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Spatangoida
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Linthia hanoverensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
13 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Linthia hanoverensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Linthia hanoverensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Linthia hanoverensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
195 taxa- Cidaris pratti11 sites
- Periarchus lyelli8 sites
- Chlamys7 sites
- Coelopleurus infulatus6 sites
- Echinolampas appendiculata6 sites
- Linthia (Linthia) harmatuki6 sites
- Linthia wilmingtonensis6 sites
- Maretia6 sites
- Plicatoria wilmingtonensis6 sites
- Plicatula filamentosa6 sites
- Unifascia carolinensis6 sites
- Agassizia (Anisaster) wilmingtonica5 sites
- Chama5 sites
- Cypraea5 sites
- Eurhodia rugosa5 sites
- Eutrephoceras carolinensis5 sites
- Protoscutella plana5 sites
- Spondylus lamellacea5 sites
- Terebratulina5 sites
- Venericardia5 sites
- Aturia alabamensis4 sites
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) cuculloides4 sites
- Cardiidae4 sites
- Chlamys cookei4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Linthia hanoverensis, 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
4 references- The Echinoids of the Middle Eocene Warley Hill Formation, Santee Limestone, and Castle Hayne Limestone of North and South Carolina6
- Eocene biostratigraphy of South Carolina and its relationship to Gulf Coastal Plain zonations and global changes of coastal onlap4
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Castle Hayne and Trent Marls in North Carolina2
- Stratigraphy of outcropping Eocene and Oligocene formations-Coastal Plain of the Carolinas1
Each of the 13 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 content1
Picture of Linthia hanoverensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Linthia hanoverensis 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 itLinthia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kellum 1926)