Palaeosaturnalis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeliosaturnalinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Radiolaria

Time the record covers

At least 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 243.43 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 180 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 77 of 180 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 101 of 180 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 180 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 180 occurrences245–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–239 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences239–237 Mya — about 3 occurrences237–234 Mya — about 17 occurrences234–231 Mya — about 4 occurrences231–228 Mya — about 3 occurrences228–225 Mya — about 9 occurrences225–222 Mya — about 12 occurrences222–220 Mya — about 12 occurrences220–217 Mya — about 12 occurrences217–214 Mya — about 5 occurrences214–211 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences211–208 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences208–205 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 35 occurrences200–197 Mya — about 22 occurrences197–194 Mya — about 21 occurrences194–191 Mya — about 10 occurrences191–188 Mya — about 4 occurrences188–185 Mya — about 4 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 3 occurrences183–180 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences180–177 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences177–174 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences233.6 Mya165.3 Mya245 Mya160 Mya

180 occurrences of Palaeosaturnalis on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

180 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

10 formations

Gokdere — 36.58°N, 30.43°EHocakoey — 36.92°N, 31.64°ESandilands — 53.91°N, 133.15°WSandilands — 52.77°N, 131.56°WSapadere — 36.42°N, 32.42°ELiminangcong Chert — 12.03°N, 119.98°ESan Hipolito — 26.00°N, 111.00°WKirchstein — 47.67°N, 11.50°EPhasoula — 34.97°N, 32.33°EZulla — 22.47°N, 59.10°ENicely — 44.10°N, 119.44°W

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The named rock units Palaeosaturnalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeosaturnalis and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Palaeosaturnalis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

734 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 88 sites for Palaeosaturnalis, 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

21 references

Each of the 180 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. 9 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Palaeosaturnalis 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 itHeliosaturnalinae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Donofrio and Mostler 1978