Symphythyris

Symphythyris

Carteron · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
CricosiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cancellothyrididae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cancellothyrididae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cancellothyrididae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 132.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 29 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 29 of 29 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous143–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 2 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 2 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 2 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 2 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 2 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 2 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 2 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 2 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence143.6 Mya132.1 Mya

29 occurrences of Symphythyris on record, most of them in the Early 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

29 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

Koprivnice — 49.58°N, 18.12°EPlanava — 49.58°N, 18.12°EVuache — 46.83°N, 6.52°E

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The named rock units Symphythyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Symphythyris and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Symphythyris and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

166 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Symphythyris, 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

8 references

Each of the 29 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 content1

Picture of Symphythyris

Source
GBIF
Credit
Carteron
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itCricosiinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.