Praelongithyris praelongiforma

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 8.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 16 of 16 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous122–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences116–116 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences116–116 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences114–114 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences114–114 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121.9 Mya112.7 Mya

16 occurrences of Praelongithyris praelongiforma 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

16 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

5 formations

Hythe — 51.27°N, 0.52°EHythe — 51.07°N, 1.08°EHythe — 51.29°N, 0.30°EFerruginous Sands — 50.63°N, 1.17°WSandgate — 51.23°N, 0.58°WSandgate — 51.67°N, 1.58°WWoburn Sand — 52.00°N, 0.77°WBargate Beds — 51.21°N, 0.63°W

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The named rock units Praelongithyris praelongiforma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Praelongithyris praelongiforma and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Praelongithyris praelongiforma and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

104 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Praelongithyris praelongiforma, 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

2 references

Each of the 16 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Praelongithyris praelongiforma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Praelongithyris praelongiforma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPraelongithyris through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

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