Soritidae

Soritidae

Philippe Bourjon · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
SoritaceaPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Miliolina
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Miliolina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Miliolina
Environment
hypersaline,marinePBDB, for Miliolina

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 468 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 136 of 468 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 42 of 468 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 89 of 468 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 60 of 468 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 64 of 468 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 468 occurrencesPleistocene — about 53 of 468 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 8 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 18 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 12 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 6 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 17 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 63 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 4 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 4 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 3 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 22 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 26 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 26 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 25 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 9 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 9 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 6 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 16 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 17 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 22 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 19 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 22 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 15 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 6 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 9 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 71 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

468 occurrences of Soritidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

468 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

68 formations

Qom Formation — 33.51°N, 51.99°EQom Formation — 34.51°N, 50.95°ESinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°ESinjar — 35.38°N, 45.49°ESinjar — 35.54°N, 45.30°EEl Bosque — 37.90°N, 1.57°WLower Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.42°ESylhet Formation — 25.26°N, 91.72°EKhurmala — 35.11°N, 45.82°EDobranberg Formation — 46.83°N, 14.53°ECima delle Murelle — 42.10°N, 14.17°EQuilon Limestone — 8.86°N, 76.72°EQuilon Limestone — 8.84°N, 76.69°EQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°ELut platform — 32.72°N, 59.24°ELut platform — 32.48°N, 59.57°ELut platform — 32.71°N, 59.29°ELagunitas — 21.62°N, 79.53°WTorreya — 30.18°N, 84.38°WQom — 37.34°N, 44.94°EQom — 35.50°N, 48.42°ETavertet/Girona Limestone — 41.97°N, 3.17°ELakadong — 25.19°N, 91.76°ELakadong — 25.16°N, 92.39°EBiely Potok — 49.34°N, 19.65°EHerschell Limestone — 32.00°S, 115.52°EJdeir — 33.92°N, 12.58°EJaffna Limestone — 9.82°N, 80.00°EJaffna Limestone — 6.40°N, 81.58°EDubar — 11.24°N, 48.98°ELindos Acropolis — 35.92°N, 27.83°ESeeb — 23.56°N, 58.11°ECalcareniti di Castelgomberto — 45.45°N, 11.58°EAlveolina- Nummulites Limestone — 45.70°N, 13.90°E

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The named rock units Soritidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 44 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 279 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Soritidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Soritidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,417 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 237 sites for Soritidae, 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

120 references

Each of the 468 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. 108 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 Soritidae

Credit
Philippe Bourjon
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Soritidae 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 itSoritacea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1839