Eurete

Eurete

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EuretinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 147 million years on record.

The record covers at least 159 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 49 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 49 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 49 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 36 of 49 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 49 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 49 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 49 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 49 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 49 occurrences165–159 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–149 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences111–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–95 Mya — about 9 occurrences95–90 Mya — about 10 occurrences90–84 Mya — about 3 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 6 occurrences79–74 Mya — about 6 occurrences74–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–26 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences26–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–9.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.5–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences159 Mya11.63 Mya165 Mya4 Mya

49 occurrences of Eurete 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

49 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

13 formations

West Melbury Marly Chalk — 51.58°N, 1.47°WUpper Chalk — 51.68°N, 0.57°WUpper Chalk — 51.37°N, 0.45°EUpper Chalk — 50.78°N, 0.00°EUpper Chalk — 50.65°N, 1.57°WWhite Limestone — 55.22°N, 6.40°WLower Chalk — 50.73°N, 0.23°ELincoln Creek — 47.28°N, 123.52°WLincoln Creek — 46.49°N, 123.80°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 51.90°N, 0.26°WVic Marls — 41.93°N, 2.25°ETutuiri Greensand — 43.75°S, 176.68°WChiampo — 45.53°N, 11.25°E"Cuvieri-Pläner" — 52.07°N, 10.25°EIlsenburg — 51.90°N, 10.67°EGlauconitic Chalk — 54.78°N, 5.68°WJasna Gora — 50.73°N, 19.13°E

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The named rock units Eurete has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eurete and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

501 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Eurete, 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

18 references

Each of the 49 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. 6 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 Eurete

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eurete 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 itEuretinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Semper 1868