Urda

Urda

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
UrdidaePBDB
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 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 150 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170.9 Mya150 Mya175.3 Mya142.5 Mya

2 occurrences of Urda 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

2 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

2 formations

Puti Siltstone — 37.46°S, 174.73°EOpalinuston — 47.43°N, 8.15°E

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The named rock units Urda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Urda and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Urda and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Urda, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 Urda

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Urda was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Munster 1840