Entalis

Entalis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 316 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 35 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 35 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 35 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 35 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 26 of 35 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 35 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 35 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 35 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 35 occurrences342–331 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences331–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–252 Mya — about 3 occurrences252–241 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–84 Mya — about 13 occurrences84–73 Mya — about 8 occurrences73–61 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–5.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences330.3 Mya13.82 Mya342 Mya5 Mya

35 occurrences of Entalis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

35 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

16 formations

Ladd — 33.75°N, 117.68°WLadd — 33.73°N, 117.64°WBellerophon — 43.71°N, 18.75°EPawkowki — 49.04°N, 111.08°WPawkowki — 49.11°N, 111.04°WMoreno — 36.22°N, 120.12°WMoreno — 37.92°N, 121.79°WCurchia — 44.76°N, 22.47°EWilliams — 33.70°N, 117.63°WFunks — 38.55°N, 122.03°WForbes — 38.95°N, 122.01°WTrochitenkalk — 49.28°N, 8.70°EMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°EPierre Shale — 43.31°N, 104.22°WLiscarroll Limestone — 51.89°N, 8.47°WRosario — 32.43°N, 117.10°WDeer Valley — 37.92°N, 121.81°WSan Francisquito — 34.62°N, 118.62°WSpray — 49.93°N, 125.18°W

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The named rock units Entalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Entalis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

312 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Entalis, 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

13 references

Each of the 35 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. 1 further reference is 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 Entalis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itScaphopoda through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1839)