Cassideus

No picture of Cassideus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cassideus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CuniculiformiidaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 3 of 7 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 7 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 7 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences145.06 Mya106.3 Mya150 Mya100 Mya

7 occurrences of Cassideus 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

2 formations

Mörnsheim — 48.86°N, 10.99°EBudden Canyon — 40.40°N, 122.52°W

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The named rock units Cassideus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cassideus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Cassideus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

88 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cassideus, 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

2 references

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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Cassideus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

No 3D scan of Cassideus 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 itCuniculiformiidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pessagno 1969