Saleniidae

Saleniidae is a family of echinoderms belonging to the order Salenioida. It was first identified by Louis Agassiz in 1838.

Saleniidae

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SalenioidaPBDB
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 149 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 164 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 49 of 164 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 91 of 164 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 11 of 164 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 164 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 164 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 164 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 164 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 164 occurrences161–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–150 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences150–145 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences145–140 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences140–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 5 occurrences129–123 Mya — about 5 occurrences123–118 Mya — about 11 occurrences118–113 Mya — about 13 occurrences113–107 Mya — about 4 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 6 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 13 occurrences97–91 Mya — about 9 occurrences91–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 7 occurrences81–75 Mya — about 5 occurrences75–70 Mya — about 24 occurrences70–64 Mya — about 35 occurrences64–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences59–54 Mya — about 8 occurrences54–48 Mya — about 0.7 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 occurrence149.2 Mya11.7 ka161 Mya0 Mya

164 occurrences of Saleniidae 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

164 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

45 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°EGulpen — 50.85°N, 5.70°EGulpen — 50.81°N, 5.89°EVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WVincentown — 39.93°N, 74.78°WVincentown — 39.88°N, 75.13°WVincentown — 40.04°N, 74.98°WMaastricht — 50.80°N, 5.67°EKeasey — 45.77°N, 123.24°WKeasey — 45.98°N, 123.28°WCotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCotinguiba — 11.00°S, 37.31°WGulpen — 50.73°N, 5.67°EGulpen — 50.73°N, 5.63°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°WWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°EGrizzle — 50.80°N, 0.18°ERisan Aneiza — 31.00°N, 33.50°ERisan Aneiza — 30.79°N, 33.48°ECabo 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°ECiply-Malogne Phosphatic Chalk — 50.42°N, 3.95°ESt-Symphorien — 50.42°N, 3.95°EQishn — 14.30°N, 48.49°EQishn — 14.55°N, 48.04°EMarno-calcaires à Heteraster oblongus — 38.85°N, 9.33°WRiacheulo — 10.76°S, 37.08°WMatulla — 28.65°N, 33.24°EHalal — 30.79°N, 33.48°EWoburn Sand — 52.00°N, 0.77°WMunday’s Hill Phosphatic Sandstone — 51.92°N, 0.67°W

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The named rock units Saleniidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Saleniidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,694 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 128 sites for Saleniidae, 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

64 references

Each of the 164 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. 52 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 Saleniidae

Credit
Didier Descouens
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Saleniidae 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.

The description on this site

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

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What may have been alongside itSalenioida through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1838