Cavidae

Cavidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CerioporinaPBDB
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 156 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 18 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 18 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 18 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 18 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 18 occurrences174–168 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences168–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence140–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–128 Mya — about 2 occurrences128–123 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences123–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–111 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences88–82 Mya — about 4 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–7.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.8–2.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences168.2 Mya11.63 Mya174 Mya2 Mya

18 occurrences of Cavidae 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

18 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

7 formations

Grès verts helvétiques — 46.00°N, 6.68°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.04°N, 6.62°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.12°N, 6.81°EGehrden — 52.31°N, 9.59°EKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.00°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.25°ECaillasses de la Basse Ecarde — 49.00°N, 0.00°ECalcaires Lites — 45.78°N, 5.52°ECouches de Birmensdorf — 46.25°N, 5.67°EPalo Pintado — 25.37°S, 65.92°W

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The named rock units Cavidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cavidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

428 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Cavidae, 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

13 references

Each of the 18 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. 1 further reference is 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 Cavidae

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cavidae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCerioporina through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. D'Orbigny 1854