Sellaea

Sellaea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CaprinulidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hippuritida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hippuritida

Time the record covers

At least 3.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 7 of 7 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 7 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences109–109 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110.1 Mya106.3 Mya120.1 Mya100 Mya

7 occurrences of Sellaea on record, most of them in the Early 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

7 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

4 formations

Halal — 30.92°N, 33.70°EHalal — 30.80°N, 33.45°EAl Hassanat — 23.53°N, 57.93°ERizan Aneiza — 30.80°N, 33.45°EPerson — 28.87°N, 97.87°W

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The named rock units Sellaea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Sellaea and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Sellaea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

34 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Sellaea, 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

4 references

Each of the 7 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Sellaea

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stefano 1889