Dorsoserpula

No picture of Dorsoserpula 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 Dorsoserpula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SerpulidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Serpulidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Serpulidae
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Serpulidae

Time the record covers

At least 71 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.6 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 7 of 20 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 11 of 20 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 20 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 20 occurrencesLate Cretaceous170–167 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences165–162 Mya — about 4 occurrences162–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–143 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences165.3 Mya93.9 Mya170 Mya88 Mya

20 occurrences of Dorsoserpula on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

20 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

9 formations

Chari — 23.50°N, 70.50°ESobral — 39.10°N, 9.27°WCalcaire a oolithes ferrugineuses — 49.30°N, 0.07°WCoral Rag de Trouville — 49.30°N, 0.07°WLourinhã — 39.10°N, 9.27°WConglomérats de Bargy — 46.02°N, 6.46°EAbadia — 38.98°N, 9.07°WPatcham — 23.70°N, 69.05°ETeplice — 50.45°N, 14.05°E

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The named rock units Dorsoserpula 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.

Dorsoserpula and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

256 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Dorsoserpula, 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

9 references

Each of the 20 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

Media content0

No picture of Dorsoserpula 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 Dorsoserpula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dorsoserpula 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 itSerpulidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Parsch 1956