Stichopites mortenseni

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StichopitesPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Holothuroidea
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Holothuroidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Holothuroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Holothuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 86 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 6 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 6 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 6 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 6 occurrencesLate Jurassic249–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–242 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences242–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences181–178 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences171–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–164 Mya — about 1 occurrence164–161 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences157–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences241.464 Mya154.8 Mya249 Mya147 Mya

6 occurrences of Stichopites mortenseni on record, most of them in the Middle 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

6 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

1 formation

Furkaska — 49.27°N, 19.81°E

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The named rock units Stichopites mortenseni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stichopites mortenseni and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Stichopites mortenseni and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

86 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Stichopites mortenseni, 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 6 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

Media content0

No picture of Stichopites mortenseni 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 Stichopites mortenseni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itStichopites through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deflandre-Rigaud 1952