Estheria middendorfi
No picture of Estheria middendorfi 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 Estheria middendorfi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EstheriaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Branchiopoda
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Branchiopoda
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Branchiopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Branchiopoda
- Environment
- marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Branchiopoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 119.57 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Estheria middendorfi 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
2 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
- Yixian Formation · Jehol Group1
- Turga Formation1
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The named rock units Estheria middendorfi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Estheria middendorfi and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Estheria middendorfi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Ephemeropsis trisetalis2 sites
- Aethalion macrorhynchus1 site
- Anura1 site
- Asiatolepis muroii1 site
- Aslacus licenti1 site
- Aslacus spinirostrius1 site
- Chresmoda1 site
- Chronomopsis sp.1 site
- Coniopteris1 site
- Czekanowskia1 site
- Mesolygaeus1 site
- Monjurosuchus splendens1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
- Paludina pura1 site
- Potamogeton1 site
- Schizolepsis jeholensis1 site
- Sinoblatta laiyangensis1 site
- Sinoelaterium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Estheria middendorfi, 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- A new genus of Thecodontia from the Lycoptera Beds in Manchoukuo1
- Sur un terrain jurassique à poissons et insectes d'eau douce de la Sibérie orientale1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Estheria middendorfi 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 Estheria middendorfi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Estheria middendorfi 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 itEstheria through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jones 1862