Marsupites testudinarius

Marsupites testudinarius

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MarsupitesPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Comatulida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Comatulida
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Comatulida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Comatulida

Time the record covers

At most 2.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 15 of 15 occurrencesLate Cretaceous86–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86.2 Mya83.1 Mya

15 occurrences of Marsupites testudinarius on record, most of them in the Late 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

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

2 formations

Haslam — 49.19°N, 124.10°WHaslam — 49.52°N, 124.88°WHaslam — 49.18°N, 124.35°WHaslam — 49.19°N, 124.15°WHaslam — 49.08°N, 124.01°WHaslam — 49.02°N, 123.96°WHaslam — 48.76°N, 123.80°WEutaw — 33.51°N, 88.49°W

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The named rock units Marsupites testudinarius 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.

Marsupites testudinarius and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Marsupites testudinarius and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

31 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Marsupites testudinarius, 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

3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Marsupites testudinarius

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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Marsupites testudinarius was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMarsupites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schlotheim 1820)