Elasmostoma bajaensis
No picture of Elasmostoma bajaensis 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 Elasmostoma bajaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElasmostomaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Calcarea
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Elasmostoma bajaensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Elasmostoma bajaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Elasmostoma bajaensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Elasmostoma bajaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Spondylus batequensis2 sites
- Acar1 site
- Archaeolithothamnium1 site
- Campanile1 site
- Colpophyllia nicholasi1 site
- Cypraedia girauxi1 site
- Dasycladaceae1 site
- Heterocoenia1 site
- Montastrea laurae1 site
- Phygraea pacifica1 site
- Platyoptera pacifica1 site
- Pseudophragmina clarki1 site
- Pycnodonte (Pegma) bajaensis1 site
- Spongiomorphidae1 site
- Stylosmilia ameliae1 site
- Velates batequensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Elasmostoma bajaensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Paleontology of the Eocene Bateque Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico1
- An Early Eocene Pharetronid Sponge from the Bateque Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Elasmostoma bajaensis 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 Elasmostoma bajaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elasmostoma bajaensis 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 itElasmostoma through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Squires and Demetrion 1989