Elasmostoma

Elasmostoma

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StellispongiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Calcaronea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Calcaronea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Calcaronea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Calcarea

Time the record covers

At least 208 million years on record.

The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Permian — about 3 of 38 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 38 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 38 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 38 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 38 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 38 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 7 of 38 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 18 of 38 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 38 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 38 occurrences271–264 Mya — about 3 occurrences173–165 Mya — about 1 occurrence165–157 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences157–150 Mya — about 4 occurrences150–142 Mya — about 3 occurrences142–135 Mya — about 3 occurrences135–127 Mya — about 6 occurrences127–120 Mya — about 5 occurrences120–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–104 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences104–97 Mya — about 3 occurrences97–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–82 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences82–74 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences74–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–44 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences264.28 Mya56 Mya271 Mya44 Mya

38 occurrences of Elasmostoma 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

38 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

10 formations

Grès verts helvétiques — 46.00°N, 6.68°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.00°N, 6.34°EZone de Pierre jaune — 47.05°N, 7.08°EBateque — 26.75°N, 113.00°WSchrattenkalk — 47.43°N, 10.23°ESchrattenkalk — 47.43°N, 10.25°EMaokou — 24.88°N, 105.18°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WUpper Greensand — 51.21°N, 2.18°WCaillasses de la Basse Ecarde — 49.00°N, 0.00°ECraie Chloritée — 49.32°N, 0.03°WMaastricht — 50.85°N, 5.69°E

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The named rock units Elasmostoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elasmostoma and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

683 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Elasmostoma, 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

14 references

Each of the 38 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. 2 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 Elasmostoma

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Elasmostoma 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 itStellispongiinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fromentel 1860