Staurocaudina

No picture of Staurocaudina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Staurocaudina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StaurocaudininaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Dendrochirotida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dendrochirotida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dendrochirotida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Holothuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Dendrochirotida

Time the record covers

At least 219 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 168.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 165.3 Mya.

Devonian — about 4 of 5 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 5 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrences398–390 Mya — about 1 occurrence390–382 Mya — about 2 occurrences382–374 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences374–366 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 1 occurrence387.95 Mya168.2 Mya398 Mya161 Mya

5 occurrences of Staurocaudina on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

5 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

2 formations

Grzegorzowice — 50.88°N, 21.03°EHagen-Balve — 51.37°N, 7.86°E

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The named rock units Staurocaudina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Staurocaudina and its relatives

Devonian

Where Staurocaudina and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

133 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Staurocaudina, 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 5 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 Staurocaudina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Staurocaudina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Staurocaudina 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.

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What may have been alongside itStaurocaudininae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boczarowski 2001