Lunulites

Lunulites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LunulitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lunulitidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lunulitidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Lunulitidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 55 of 164 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 164 occurrencesEocene — about 38 of 164 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 164 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 62 of 164 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 164 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 164 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 9 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 23 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 19 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 7 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 25 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 7 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 7 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 13 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 25 occurrences12–9.4 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.4–6.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.6–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–960 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72.2 Mya5.333 Mya85 Mya960 ka

164 occurrences of Lunulites on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

164 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

20 formations

Pirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 1.00°S, 48.00°WPirabas — 1.23°S, 47.40°WPirabas — 0.82°S, 46.96°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 2.58°S, 43.38°WMoodys Branch — 31.89°N, 88.39°WMoodys Branch — 31.50°N, 87.80°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WCrystal River Limestone — 30.77°N, 85.23°WCrystal River Limestone — 29.65°N, 82.61°WCrystal River Limestone — 29.19°N, 82.14°WCrystal River Limestone — 29.29°N, 82.75°WCrystal River Limestone — 28.71°N, 82.57°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WKasseler Meeressand — 51.45°N, 9.52°EKasseler Meeressand — 51.35°N, 9.38°EKasseler Meeressand — 50.43°N, 9.55°EKasseler Meeressand — 51.27°N, 9.63°EDanish White Chalk — 57.03°N, 9.93°EBarton Clay — 51.02°N, 1.32°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WStone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WBarton Beds — 50.78°N, 1.73°WBarton Beds — 50.85°N, 1.78°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EWilliston Limestone — 29.77°N, 82.87°WCrystal River — 30.77°N, 85.23°WPachuta Marl — 31.14°N, 87.94°WBumpnose — 30.77°N, 85.23°WLondon Clay — 51.73°N, 0.48°EYazoo — 31.66°N, 92.90°WCampanien 1-2 — 45.75°N, 0.47°WDry Creek Sands — 34.91°S, 138.56°EGlenaulin clay — 37.93°S, 141.41°EMøns Klint — 54.97°N, 12.55°E

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The named rock units Lunulites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 101 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lunulites and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lunulites and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,313 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 115 sites for Lunulites, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

20 references

Each of the 164 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. 8 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 Lunulites

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Lunulites 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1816