Andreaea

No picture of Andreaea was found. iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Andreaea 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 Andreaea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CribrospongiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 5 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous127–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121.4 Mya83.6 Mya127 Mya71 Mya

5 occurrences of Andreaea 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

5 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

1 formation

West Melbury Marly Chalk — 51.58°N, 1.47°W

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The named rock units Andreaea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Andreaea and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

223 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Andreaea, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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

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No picture of Andreaea was found. iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Andreaea 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 Andreaea, 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCribrospongiidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schrammen 1902