Sarepta

A picture published with the record for Sarepta. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
SareptinaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Sareptidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Sareptidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Sareptidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 233 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 18.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 15.9 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 17 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 17 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 17 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 17 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 17 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 17 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 17 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 17 occurrences259–251 Mya — about 1 occurrence251–242 Mya — about 4 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–52 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences44–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–28 Mya — about 4 occurrences28–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences251.902 Mya18.7 Mya259 Mya11 Mya

17 occurrences of Sarepta on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

17 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

9 formations

Morzhov — 74.95°N, 112.75°EGlen Aire Clay — 38.85°S, 143.52°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.08°S, 170.95°EWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°EBlanche Point — 35.28°S, 138.48°EPallinup Siltstone — 35.02°S, 117.89°ETortachilla Limestone — 34.92°S, 138.62°EKings Park — 31.96°S, 115.83°ENekuchan — 63.15°N, 139.24°E

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The named rock units Sarepta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sarepta and its relatives

Eocene

Where Sarepta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

200 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Sarepta, 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

10 references

Each of the 17 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 content2

Picture of Sarepta

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

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What may have been alongside itSareptinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adams 1860