Psamminopelta

Psamminopelta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RzehakinidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At most 5.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 13 of 13 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 13 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103–103 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103–103 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103–103 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences106.8 Mya100 Mya

13 occurrences of Psamminopelta 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

13 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

1 formation

Westgate — 51.58°N, 111.00°WWestgate — 53.00°N, 110.17°W

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The named rock units Psamminopelta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Psamminopelta and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Psamminopelta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 13 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 Psamminopelta

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itRzehakinidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.