Dentalium (Laevidentalium)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DentaliumPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Dentaliida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Dentaliida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Dentaliida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Scaphopoda

Time the record covers

At least 205 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 62 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 62 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 62 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 62 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 62 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 62 occurrencesPaleocene — about 4 of 62 occurrencesEocene — about 36 of 62 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 62 occurrencesMiocene — about 14 of 62 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 62 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 62 occurrences232–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences216–209 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences209–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–54 Mya — about 5 occurrences54–46 Mya — about 6 occurrences46–39 Mya — about 24 occurrences39–31 Mya — about 6 occurrences31–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–7.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences7.7–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences205.7 Mya129 ka232 Mya0 Mya

62 occurrences of Dentalium (Laevidentalium) on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

62 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

21 formations

Llajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WLlajas — 34.27°N, 118.71°WDrazinda — 29.95°N, 70.12°EGatun — 9.30°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WTapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 45.01°S, 170.71°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.96°S, 170.65°EMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°EBohio — 9.18°N, 79.88°WKauru — 44.79°S, 170.51°EKauru — 45.04°S, 170.76°EOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WOtekaike Limestone — 44.84°S, 170.52°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°ECilanang — 6.73°S, 108.67°EGlen Aire Clay — 38.83°S, 143.48°EThomonde — 19.00°N, 72.42°WToshima Sand — 34.62°N, 137.22°ELodo — 36.36°N, 120.44°WTejon — 34.92°N, 119.18°WMission Valley — 32.91°N, 117.09°W

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The named rock units Dentalium (Laevidentalium) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dentalium (Laevidentalium) and its relatives

Eocene

Where Dentalium (Laevidentalium) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,864 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Dentalium (Laevidentalium), 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

19 references

Each of the 62 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. 7 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

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1888