Amberleya

Amberleya

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EucyclidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Seguenzioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Seguenzioidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Seguenzioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 127 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 68 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 33 of 68 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 12 of 68 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 8 of 68 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 68 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 68 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 68 occurrences204–199 Mya — about 1 occurrence199–195 Mya — about 7 occurrences195–190 Mya — about 9 occurrences190–185 Mya — about 10 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 4 occurrences181–176 Mya — about 2 occurrences176–171 Mya — about 6 occurrences171–167 Mya — about 5 occurrences167–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–157 Mya — about 3 occurrences157–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences148–143 Mya — about 2 occurrences129–124 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 1 occurrence110–106 Mya — about 1 occurrence106–101 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences87–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 5 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences199.5 Mya72.2 Mya204 Mya63 Mya

68 occurrences of Amberleya on record, most of them in the Early 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

68 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

26 formations

Lopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WOpalinuston — 47.43°N, 8.15°ELower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WKap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°ECharmouth Mudstone — 50.73°N, 2.91°WCharmouth Mudstone — 50.72°N, 2.85°WCharmouth Mudstone — 50.76°N, 2.85°WKiowa — 38.43°N, 97.90°WKiowa — 38.75°N, 97.75°WKimmeridge Clay — 50.63°N, 2.35°WAberhan Sinemur — 33.47°S, 70.75°WWhite Limestone — 51.75°N, 1.17°WSnow Hill Island — 63.00°S, 57.00°WDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDajiashan — 46.47°N, 132.97°ECalcare Massiccio — 43.37°N, 12.20°EAngulatensandstein — 48.73°N, 9.10°EIsztimér Limestone — 47.20°N, 17.90°EIsztimér — 47.28°N, 17.84°ETucumcari — 35.11°N, 103.33°WLiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EBelemnite Marls — 50.72°N, 2.85°WCape Stewart Beds — 70.46°N, 22.63°WCape Stewart — 70.47°N, 22.36°WCarmel — 39.18°N, 110.72°WTres Esquinas — 34.92°S, 69.77°W

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The named rock units Amberleya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amberleya and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Amberleya and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

627 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Amberleya, 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

36 references

Each of the 68 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. 24 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 content2

Picture of Amberleya

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access 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.

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What may have been alongside itEucyclidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Morris and Lycett 1851