Gauthieria

Gauthieria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhymosomatidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Phymosomatoida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Phymosomatoida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Phymosomatoida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 65 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 56 of 65 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 8 of 65 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 65 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 65 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 65 occurrencesMiocene102–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences93–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 3 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 3 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 15 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 18 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 8 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89.8 Mya23.04 Mya102 Mya14 Mya

65 occurrences of Gauthieria on record, most of them in the Late 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

65 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

15 formations

Gulpen — 50.76°N, 5.66°EGulpen — 50.73°N, 5.67°EGulpen — 50.73°N, 5.63°EMaastricht — 50.88°N, 5.93°EMaastricht — 50.85°N, 5.70°EMaastricht — 50.85°N, 5.77°EMaastricht — 51.22°N, 5.75°EMaastricht — 50.79°N, 5.63°EMaastricht — 50.80°N, 5.67°EGulpen — 50.85°N, 5.70°EGulpen — 50.76°N, 5.83°EGulpen — 50.77°N, 5.86°EVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WVincentown — 40.04°N, 74.98°WVincentown — 39.88°N, 75.13°WVaals — 50.73°N, 5.67°EVaals — 50.65°N, 5.80°ECiply-Malogne Phosphatic Chalk — 50.42°N, 3.95°ECiply-Malogne Phosphatic Chalk — 50.44°N, 4.01°EMaisières Chalk — 50.49°N, 3.96°EMaisières Chalk — 50.47°N, 4.07°EMaisières Chalk — 50.46°N, 4.16°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°EVaals — 50.77°N, 6.01°EHouthem — 50.87°N, 5.78°ESt-Symphorien — 50.42°N, 3.95°ENouvelles Chalk — 50.41°N, 4.01°EObourg — 50.41°N, 4.01°ERoca — 37.67°S, 67.50°W

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The named rock units Gauthieria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gauthieria and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

515 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Gauthieria, 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 65 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 Gauthieria

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

No 3D scan of Gauthieria 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 itPhymosomatidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lambert 1891