Sarsteinia babai
No picture of Sarsteinia babai was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sarsteinia babai, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SarsteiniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Calcarea
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Calcarea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Calcarea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Calcarea
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 154.8 Mya and 143.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Sarsteinia babai on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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
2 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Sarsteinia babai has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sarsteinia babai and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Sarsteinia babai and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Crescentiella morronensis2 sites
- Radiomura cautica2 sites
- Calcistella1 site
- Cylicopsis1 site
- Koskinobullina socialis1 site
- Labes1 site
- Lithocodium aggregatum1 site
- Perturbatacrusta leini1 site
- Pseudorothpletzella schmidi1 site
- Terebella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sarsteinia babai, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Microencrusters from the Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous İnaltı Formation (Central Pontides, Turkey): remarks on the development of reefal/peri-reefal facies1
- Sarsteinia babai n. gen., n. sp., a new problematic sponge (Inozoa?) from the Late Jurassic of the Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Sarsteinia babai was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sarsteinia babai, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sarsteinia babai 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSarsteinia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schlagintweit and Gawlick 2006