Berenicea

Berenicea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiastoporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 429 million years on record.

The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 451 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Ordovician — about 13 of 75 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 75 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 75 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 75 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 75 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 75 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 75 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 75 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 4 of 75 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 15 of 75 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 20 of 75 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 75 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 75 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 75 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 75 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 75 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 75 occurrences460–445 Mya — about 12 occurrences445–430 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences430–414 Mya — about 1 occurrence203–188 Mya — about 1 occurrence188–173 Mya — about 3 occurrences173–158 Mya — about 18 occurrences158–143 Mya — about 17 occurrences143–128 Mya — about 5 occurrences128–113 Mya — about 5 occurrences113–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–83 Mya — about 3 occurrences83–68 Mya — about 4 occurrences68–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–7.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence450.2 Mya20.45 Mya460 Mya7 Mya

75 occurrences of Berenicea on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

75 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

40 formations

White Limestone — 51.75°N, 1.17°WChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EKorojon — 22.99°S, 114.09°EKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WSandgate — 51.67°N, 1.58°WLlacova — 40.47°N, 0.05°EAgrio — 37.65°S, 70.22°WAgrio — 39.44°S, 70.17°WEnokuchi — 32.32°N, 130.35°EFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WBellevue — 39.00°N, 84.00°WCorryville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WMount Auburn — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EArnheim — 39.00°N, 84.00°WRed Bluff Tuff — 44.00°S, 176.67°EHemse Beds — 57.37°N, 18.69°ELiberty — 38.20°N, 85.57°WSüntel — 51.90°N, 10.50°EVellerat — 47.30°N, 7.32°EChay — 46.10°N, 1.13°WMartinsburg — 40.48°N, 76.53°WWhitewater — 38.00°N, 85.50°WXiaqiongco — 31.75°N, 89.50°E

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The named rock units Berenicea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Berenicea and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Berenicea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,740 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 64 sites for Berenicea, 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

49 references

Each of the 75 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. 37 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 Berenicea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Berenicea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itDiastoporidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamouroux 1821