Sellithyris

Sellithyris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SellithyridinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Sellithyrididae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Sellithyrididae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Sellithyrididae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 67 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 7 of 110 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 14 of 110 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 71 of 110 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 18 of 110 occurrencesLate Cretaceous167–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 5 occurrences162–159 Mya — about 3 occurrences159–156 Mya — about 4 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 3 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 1 occurrence141–138 Mya — about 3 occurrences138–135 Mya — about 3 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 2 occurrences133–130 Mya — about 4 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 4 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 3 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–120 Mya — about 14 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 11 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 10 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 6 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 3 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 3 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 5 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 6 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 5 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences161.5 Mya93.9 Mya167 Mya88 Mya

110 occurrences of Sellithyris 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

110 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

22 formations

Tataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ETataouine — 32.62°N, 10.40°EHils Conglomerate — 52.00°N, 10.00°EFerruginous Sands — 50.60°N, 1.32°WFerruginous Sands — 50.63°N, 1.17°WFerruginous Sands — 50.60°N, 1.35°WAtherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 51.23°N, 0.58°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WHythe — 51.08°N, 1.18°EHythe — 51.08°N, 1.08°ECapas Rojas — 40.61°N, 0.13°WSandgate — 51.23°N, 0.58°WSandgate — 51.35°N, 2.08°WArgiles de Ghriss — 35.25°N, 0.15°ECalcaires récifaux supérieurs — 38.77°N, 9.30°WReuchenette — 47.39°N, 7.03°EReuchenette — 47.22°N, 7.54°EWoburn Sand — 52.00°N, 0.77°WZone de Pierre jaune — 47.05°N, 7.08°ESecond niveau de Calcaires à Rudistes — 45.95°N, 1.08°WIancila — 44.88°N, 28.78°EBarril Viejo — 27.45°N, 101.47°WArgiles de Lamoriciere — 34.90°N, 1.03°WBargate Beds — 51.21°N, 0.63°WMarno-calcaires à Heteraster oblongus — 38.85°N, 9.33°WLangshan — 31.40°N, 89.01°EBernissart — 50.60°N, 3.39°EGünsberg-Schichten — 47.33°N, 7.60°EValea Minusului — 45.02°N, 21.88°E

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The named rock units Sellithyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 56 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sellithyris and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

780 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 88 sites for Sellithyris, 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

38 references

Each of the 110 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. 26 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 Sellithyris

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sellithyris 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itSellithyridinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Middlemiss 1959