Sandalia sp.

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/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.
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Sandalia sp. on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
5 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
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The named rock units Sandalia sp. 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.
Sandalia sp. and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Sandalia sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Terquemella5 sites
- Frederica4 sites
- Acicularia3 sites
- Neomeris3 sites
- Parachaetetes asvapatii3 sites
- Peyssonnelia antiqua3 sites
- Russoella3 sites
- Sandalia multipora3 sites
- Dactylopora2 sites
- Haddonia2 sites
- Jodotella2 sites
- Linoporella2 sites
- Miniacina2 sites
- Miscellanea2 sites
- Orioporella2 sites
- Sigmoilina2 sites
- Sporolithon2 sites
- Uteria2 sites
- Anomalinoides1 site
- Carpathiella1 site
- Clypeina1 site
- Jania1 site
- Lithothamnion1 site
- Polystrata alba1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Sandalia sp., 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- An occurrence of Paleocene reefal limestone in the Zwieselalm Formation of Gosau (Upper Austria)3
- Paleogeographical development of the Myjava sedimentary area (Western Slovakia) during the existence of the Paleocene reef complex2
Each of the 5 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
Media content2

Picture of Sandalia sp.
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Manuel CABALLER
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Roberto Domínguez
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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 itFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.