Unipeltata

Unipeltata

Uncredited · 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
StomatopodaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Malacostraca
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Malacostraca
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 309 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.4 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 34 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 34 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 34 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 34 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 34 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 34 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 34 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 34 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 34 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 12 of 34 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 34 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 34 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 34 occurrencesMiocene — about 8 of 34 occurrences342–331 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences331–319 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences252–241 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–140 Mya — about 2 occurrences140–129 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences129–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–106 Mya — about 2 occurrences106–95 Mya — about 5 occurrences95–84 Mya — about 4 occurrences84–72 Mya — about 5 occurrences72–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–39 Mya — about 4 occurrences28–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–5.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences323.4 Mya13.82 Mya342 Mya5 Mya

34 occurrences of Unipeltata on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

34 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

17 formations

Kiowa — 38.60°N, 97.82°WKiowa — 38.65°N, 98.01°WKiowa — 38.76°N, 97.75°WMonterey — 35.55°N, 120.81°WMonterey — 33.71°N, 118.30°WAltamira Shale — 33.75°N, 118.39°WMishash — 31.35°N, 35.25°EMishash — 31.03°N, 35.23°EMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WHeath Shale — 46.97°N, 109.28°WTsuchiyama — 34.94°N, 136.32°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°ETopanga Canyon — 34.11°N, 118.16°WSantiago — 33.21°N, 117.31°WNye — 44.56°N, 124.07°WAkeyo — 35.38°N, 137.23°ELondon Clay — 51.58°N, 0.15°WAhlen — 51.83°N, 7.83°EMishash — 31.20°N, 35.86°ESan Rafael — 5.53°N, 73.52°W

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The named rock units Unipeltata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Unipeltata and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

225 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Unipeltata, 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

21 references

Each of the 34 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. 9 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 Unipeltata

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Unipeltata 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 itStomatopoda through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1825