Durania

Durania

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RadiolitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hippuritida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hippuritida

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 204 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 203 of 204 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 204 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–99 Mya — about 3 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 3 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 10 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 15 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 15 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 10 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 6 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 6 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 23 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 27 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 7 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 7 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 7 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 7 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 7 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 7 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 7 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 7 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 5 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 5 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 5 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 5 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences100.5 Mya72.2 Mya107.1 Mya65.2 Mya

204 occurrences of Durania on record, most of them in the Late 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

204 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

31 formations

Milas — 37.38°N, 27.47°EMilas — 37.34°N, 27.56°EMilas — 37.21°N, 27.95°EMilas — 37.14°N, 28.02°EMilas — 37.32°N, 28.18°EMilas — 37.37°N, 28.27°EScaglia Rossa Veneta — 45.62°N, 10.95°EWata — 29.67°N, 34.50°EWata — 30.38°N, 33.52°EWadi As Sir Limestone — 32.36°N, 35.74°EWadi As Sir Limestone — 32.40°N, 35.81°EWadi As Sir Limestone — 32.43°N, 35.85°ESimsima — 24.87°N, 55.95°EAruma — 25.43°N, 46.47°EAruma — 25.17°N, 46.83°EPiragua — 21.48°N, 77.83°WBourg-des-Maisons — 45.45°N, 0.45°ENiobrara — 36.28°N, 104.72°WNiobrara — 38.72°N, 100.70°WBack Rio Grande — 18.11°N, 76.48°WAbu Roash — 30.06°N, 31.08°Emiddle Abu Roash — 30.05°N, 31.07°EPanoche — 37.20°N, 121.21°WPicofrentes — 41.08°N, 2.72°WPicofrentes — 41.37°N, 2.98°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.19°N, 100.30°WNeylandville Marl — 32.10°N, 96.47°WAngostura — 16.73°N, 93.10°WSimsima — 25.02°N, 55.78°EAngouleme — 45.45°N, 0.45°EGour-de-l'Arche — 44.92°N, 0.93°EMendez Shale — 22.23°N, 97.83°WCarlile Shale — 39.05°N, 99.03°WSamhan — 20.62°N, 58.20°EFiqa — 19.60°N, 57.60°E

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The named rock units Durania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 143 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Durania and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Durania and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

516 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Durania, 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

64 references

Each of the 204 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. 52 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 Durania

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 was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itRadiolitidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Douvillé 1908