Gigantothyris blanda

Gigantothyris blanda

Armand Hary · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GigantothyrisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Postepithyrididae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Postepithyrididae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Postepithyrididae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 2.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 170.9 Mya and 168.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic171–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences171.4 Mya167.7 Mya

2 occurrences of Gigantothyris blanda on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

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

"Humphriesi Oolith" — 48.75°N, 9.82°E

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The named rock units Gigantothyris blanda 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.

Gigantothyris blanda and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Gigantothyris blanda and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Gigantothyris blanda, 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

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

Media content1

Picture of Gigantothyris blanda

Source
GBIF
Credit
Armand Hary
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gigantothyris blanda 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 itGigantothyris through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Seifert 1963