Glomerula serpentina

Glomerula serpentina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GlomerulaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 180.4 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 19 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 19 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 6 of 19 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 19 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 19 occurrencesLate Cretaceous182–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–176 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences176–173 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences173–170 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 1 occurrence167–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–160 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences160–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–154 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–141 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences138–135 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences132–129 Mya — about 2 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 2 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences101–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences170.9 Mya93.9 Mya182 Mya88 Mya

19 occurrences of Glomerula serpentina 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

19 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

9 formations

Agrio — 38.37°S, 70.02°WAgrio — 37.67°S, 70.03°WAgrio — 39.35°S, 70.13°WAgrio — 37.65°S, 70.22°WPatcham — 23.52°N, 69.00°ECaillasses de la Basse Ecarde — 49.00°N, 0.00°EBraunjura alpha & Braunjura beta — 48.90°N, 7.67°ECalcaires Lites — 45.78°N, 5.52°EPortland Limestone — 50.52°N, 2.43°WCouches de Birmensdorf — 46.25°N, 5.67°EAmbarimaninga — 16.50°S, 46.00°ENeuburger Weiß — 48.73°N, 11.18°E

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The named rock units Glomerula serpentina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glomerula serpentina and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Glomerula serpentina and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

675 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Glomerula serpentina, 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

14 references

Each of the 19 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. 2 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

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Picture of Glomerula serpentina

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No 3D scan of Glomerula serpentina 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schlotheim 1820)