Thaumatoporella parvovesiculifera

Thaumatoporella parvovesiculifera

Rita Raineri (1896–1980) · Public Domain · 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
ThaumatoporellaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Thaumatoporella
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Thaumatoporella
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Thaumatoporella
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Thaumatoporella

Time the record covers

At least 175 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 56 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 124 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 124 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 18 of 124 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 8 of 124 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 124 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 15 of 124 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 124 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 64 of 124 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 124 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 124 occurrences251–244 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences244–238 Mya — about 2 occurrences238–231 Mya — about 5 occurrences231–224 Mya — about 2 occurrences224–218 Mya — about 2 occurrences218–211 Mya — about 2 occurrences211–204 Mya — about 6 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 3 occurrences198–191 Mya — about 2 occurrences191–185 Mya — about 4 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 1 occurrence178–171 Mya — about 2 occurrences171–165 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences165–158 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences158–152 Mya — about 6 occurrences152–145 Mya — about 7 occurrences145–138 Mya — about 4 occurrences138–132 Mya — about 2 occurrences132–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–118 Mya — about 3 occurrences118–112 Mya — about 3 occurrences105–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–92 Mya — about 10 occurrences92–85 Mya — about 22 occurrences85–79 Mya — about 20 occurrences79–72 Mya — about 10 occurrences72–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences65–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–52 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences241.464 Mya66 Mya251 Mya52 Mya

124 occurrences of Thaumatoporella parvovesiculifera 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

29 formations

Trieste Karst Limestone — 45.70°N, 13.73°ETrieste Karst Limestone — 45.78°N, 13.65°ETrieste Karst Limestone — 45.75°N, 13.63°EUpper Tului — 40.10°N, 9.52°EPlassen — 47.58°N, 13.98°EPlassen — 47.58°N, 13.92°EDachstein — 47.58°N, 14.47°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°ETisovec Limestone — 47.63°N, 14.33°EWetterstein — 48.58°N, 20.58°EPanormide — 38.13°N, 13.38°EShotori Dolomite — 32.50°N, 57.33°ENayband — 32.93°N, 52.03°EWetterstein Limestone — 47.97°N, 20.50°ECalcari Grigi — 45.58°N, 10.98°ELes Marno-Calcaires Supérieurs — 35.68°N, 0.92°WSchlern 1 — 46.47°N, 13.33°ELechkogel — 46.67°N, 14.85°EWetterstein — 48.51°N, 20.55°EGornji Humac — 43.21°N, 16.58°ERiva di Solto Shale — 45.93°N, 9.57°EXiron — 38.92°N, 23.42°ELärchberg — 47.62°N, 12.67°EYatsuji — 33.37°N, 132.63°EDolomie di Monti Fiumata — 41.88°N, 13.32°ECesarea Limestone — 40.06°N, 18.43°E"Lithiotid Horizon" — 45.92°N, 14.47°E

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The named rock units Thaumatoporella parvovesiculifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 82 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thaumatoporella parvovesiculifera and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Thaumatoporella parvovesiculifera and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

654 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Thaumatoporella parvovesiculifera, 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

62 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. 50 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 Thaumatoporella parvovesiculifera

Credit
Rita Raineri (1896–1980)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Thaumatoporella parvovesiculifera 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 itThaumatoporella through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Raineri 1922)