Higumastra inflata

No picture of Higumastra inflata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Higumastra inflata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HigumastraPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 3 of 23 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 11 of 23 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 23 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous169–168 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 2 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 2 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 2 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165.3 Mya137.05 Mya168.9 Mya131.9 Mya

23 occurrences of Higumastra inflata on record, most of them in the Late 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

23 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

10 formations

Oberalmer Schichten — 47.73°N, 13.03°ETaman — 21.28°N, 98.82°WWahrah — 22.97°N, 57.06°EWahrah — 22.74°N, 57.26°EAmeghino — 64.47°S, 58.97°WNadan — 23.02°N, 57.11°ESchrambach-Schichten — 47.73°N, 13.03°ESoccher — 46.19°N, 12.30°EAptychus Beds — 47.67°N, 12.90°EJosephine — 41.87°N, 123.83°WSnowshoe — 44.13°N, 119.12°W

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The named rock units Higumastra inflata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Higumastra inflata and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Higumastra inflata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

477 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Higumastra inflata, 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

8 references

Each of the 23 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. 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 content0

No picture of Higumastra inflata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Higumastra inflata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Higumastra inflata 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 itHigumastra through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Baumgartner 1980