Graphularia

Graphularia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PennatuloideaPBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 8 of 38 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 11 of 38 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 10 of 38 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 38 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 38 occurrencesMiocene73–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 4 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66 Mya15.98 Mya73 Mya10 Mya

38 occurrences of Graphularia on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

38 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

17 formations

Maastricht — 50.85°N, 5.68°ELondon Clay — 51.43°N, 2.00°WLondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WLondon Clay — 51.73°N, 0.48°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°EVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WVincentown — 39.94°N, 74.75°WBarton Beds — 50.85°N, 1.78°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WPorters Creek — 31.90°N, 86.88°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WIhungia — 40.13°S, 176.55°EBuccleuch — 35.28°S, 139.45°EGulpen — 50.82°N, 5.70°EBruderndorf — 48.47°N, 16.30°EMilburn Limestone — 46.07°S, 170.00°EOiching — 47.92°N, 13.00°EWharekuri Greensand — 44.70°S, 170.43°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.79°S, 170.51°EOtekaike — 44.80°S, 170.53°EOamaru — 45.08°S, 170.98°EJan Juc — 38.35°S, 144.30°E

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The named rock units Graphularia 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.

Graphularia and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Graphularia and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

1,061 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Graphularia, 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

23 references

Each of the 38 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. 11 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 Graphularia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPennatuloidea through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.