Salenidia

Salenidia

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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 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 29 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 27 of 29 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 29 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 29 occurrencesEocene102–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 6 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 7 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 7 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93.9 Mya56 Mya102 Mya47 Mya

29 occurrences of Salenidia on record, most of them in the Late 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

29 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

7 formations

Maastricht — 50.85°N, 5.70°EMaastricht — 50.85°N, 6.77°EMaastricht — 50.85°N, 5.77°EMaastricht — 50.86°N, 5.79°EMaastricht — 50.80°N, 5.67°EGulpen — 50.85°N, 5.70°EGulpen — 50.81°N, 5.89°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°ECiply-Malogne Phosphatic Chalk — 50.42°N, 3.95°ESt-Symphorien — 50.42°N, 3.95°EMarnes de Foncouverte — 43.15°N, 2.57°E

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The named rock units Salenidia 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.

Salenidia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

270 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Salenidia, 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

5 references

Each of the 29 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 content1

Picture of Salenidia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Salenidia was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itSaleniidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pomel 1883