Somalithyris macfadyeni

No picture of Somalithyris macfadyeni was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Somalithyris macfadyeni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SomalithyrisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Postepithyrididae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Postepithyrididae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Postepithyrididae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 152.21 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic165–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165.8 Mya151.7 Mya

3 occurrences of Somalithyris macfadyeni 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

3 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

3 formations

Shuqra — 14.32°N, 48.45°EBihen Limestone — 10.15°N, 45.10°ESa Wer — 10.16°N, 43.06°E

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

Somalithyris macfadyeni and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Somalithyris macfadyeni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

81 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Somalithyris macfadyeni, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 content0

No picture of Somalithyris macfadyeni was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Somalithyris macfadyeni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Somalithyris macfadyeni was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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.

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What may have been alongside itSomalithyris through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muir-Wood 1935