Salenia

Salenia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SaleniidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Salenioida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Salenioida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Salenioida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 132 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 114 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 34 of 114 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 59 of 114 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 10 of 114 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 114 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 114 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 114 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 114 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 114 occurrences161–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–140 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences140–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 5 occurrences129–123 Mya — about 4 occurrences123–118 Mya — about 7 occurrences118–113 Mya — about 9 occurrences113–107 Mya — about 3 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 3 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 9 occurrences97–91 Mya — about 8 occurrences91–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 5 occurrences81–75 Mya — about 4 occurrences75–70 Mya — about 14 occurrences70–64 Mya — about 19 occurrences64–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–54 Mya — about 8 occurrences48–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.4–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence132.6 Mya11.7 ka161 Mya0 Mya

114 occurrences of Salenia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

114 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

37 formations

Vincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WVincentown — 39.93°N, 74.78°WVincentown — 39.88°N, 75.13°WVincentown — 40.04°N, 74.98°WKeasey — 45.77°N, 123.24°WKeasey — 45.98°N, 123.28°WGulpen — 50.73°N, 5.67°EGulpen — 50.73°N, 5.63°EGulpen — 50.77°N, 5.86°EAnacacho Limestone — 29.44°N, 98.86°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.19°N, 100.30°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.39°N, 99.15°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.36°N, 99.47°WGrizzle — 50.80°N, 0.18°ECotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCabo de Lata — 43.49°N, 3.80°WCabo de Lata — 42.84°N, 2.18°WWilmington Sands — 50.80°N, 0.18°ECalcaires récifaux supérieurs — 38.77°N, 9.30°WSimsima — 24.87°N, 55.95°EMaastricht — 50.80°N, 5.67°EMaastricht — 50.86°N, 5.79°EMaastricht — 50.82°N, 5.68°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°EMarno-calcaires à Heteraster oblongus — 38.85°N, 9.33°WWoburn Sand — 52.00°N, 0.77°WMunday’s Hill Phosphatic Sandstone — 51.92°N, 0.67°WTamanar — 31.40°N, 9.68°WVuache — 46.83°N, 6.52°ECraie de Villedieu — 45.00°N, 0.37°EAbu Qada — 29.13°N, 33.28°EWata — 29.13°N, 33.28°EHouthem — 50.87°N, 5.78°ESalt Mountain Limestone — 31.43°N, 87.92°W

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The named rock units Salenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Salenia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Salenia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,416 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 96 sites for Salenia, 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

51 references

Each of the 114 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. 39 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 content1

Picture of Salenia

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Salenia 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1835