Oblongarcula

No picture of Oblongarcula was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Oblongarcula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GemmarculinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Terebrataliidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebrataliidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Terebrataliidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 4.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 12 of 12 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous138–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences128–128 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–119 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences114–114 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125.77 Mya121.4 Mya137.6 Mya112.7 Mya

12 occurrences of Oblongarcula 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

12 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

Hils Conglomerate — 52.00°N, 10.00°EHythe — 51.08°N, 1.18°EHythe — 51.25°N, 0.07°WSandgate — 51.12°N, 1.00°ESandgate — 51.35°N, 2.08°WFerruginous Sands — 50.63°N, 1.17°WWoburn Sand — 52.00°N, 0.77°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°W

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The named rock units Oblongarcula 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.

Oblongarcula and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Oblongarcula and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

228 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Oblongarcula, 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

Each of the 12 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 Oblongarcula was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Oblongarcula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Oblongarcula 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 itGemmarculinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Elliott 1959