Alkaidia sumralli

No picture of Alkaidia sumralli was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Alkaidia sumralli itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Alkaidia sumralli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AlkaidiaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Asteroidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asteroidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Asteroidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 7 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 7 occurrencesLate Cretaceous106–106 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106.8 Mya93.4 Mya

7 occurrences of Alkaidia sumralli 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

7 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

4 formations

Pawpaw — 32.70°N, 97.30°WPawpaw — 32.63°N, 97.40°WDel Rio — 30.27°N, 97.75°WDel Rio — 31.55°N, 97.15°WMain Street Limestone — 32.78°N, 97.22°WGrayson Marl — 32.77°N, 97.22°W

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

Alkaidia sumralli and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Alkaidia sumralli and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Alkaidia sumralli, 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

1 reference

Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Alkaidia sumralli was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Alkaidia sumralli itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Alkaidia sumralli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blake and Reid 1998