Struthioptera

Struthioptera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StruthiopterinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 99.5 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 103.3 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 124 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 54 of 124 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 40 of 124 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 29 of 124 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 124 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 6 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–71 Mya — about 8 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 16 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 16 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 21 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 19 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 4 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 6 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 7 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences99.5 Mya37.71 Mya105 Mya33 Mya

124 occurrences of Struthioptera on record, most of them in the Late 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

124 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

11 formations

Lefipán — 42.67°S, 69.98°WLefipán — 42.69°S, 69.84°WLefipán — 42.49°S, 69.96°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.68°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.70°WLa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.64°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.62°WJagüel — 38.13°S, 68.41°WRoca — 37.56°S, 69.85°WRoca — 37.54°S, 69.87°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.00°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.25°EKahuitara Tuff — 44.24°S, 176.24°WLefipan — 42.69°S, 69.84°WLefipan — 42.84°S, 69.71°WOkarahia Sandstone — 42.57°S, 173.52°EOkarahia Sandstone — 42.60°S, 173.42°EOkarahia Sandstone — 42.55°S, 173.50°ESubmeseta — 64.26°S, 56.66°WSubmeseta — 64.26°S, 56.62°WWangaloa — 46.18°S, 170.00°EMangapokia — 41.00°S, 175.99°EColitoro — 41.00°S, 69.25°W

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The named rock units Struthioptera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Struthioptera and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

422 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Struthioptera, 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

13 references

Each of the 124 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. 1 further reference is 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 content2

Picture of Struthioptera

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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CC0
Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itStruthiopterinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Finlay and Marwick 1937