Ichthyolaria

Ichthyolaria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IchthyolariidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Lagenina
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Lagenina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 129 million years on record.

The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Permian — about 10 of 27 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 27 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 14 of 27 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 27 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous277–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences272–267 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences267–262 Mya — about 6 occurrences262–258 Mya — about 2 occurrences258–253 Mya — about 2 occurrences253–248 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences238–233 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences233–228 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences228–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences194–189 Mya — about 3 occurrences189–184 Mya — about 5 occurrences184–179 Mya — about 5 occurrences179–174 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences145–140 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences140–135 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences266.9 Mya137.05 Mya277 Mya130 Mya

27 occurrences of Ichthyolaria on record, most of them in the Early 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

27 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

7 formations

Camino — 43.05°N, 4.07°WArpa — 39.66°N, 45.22°EArpa — 39.95°N, 44.94°EWardak — 34.11°N, 68.53°EArpa — 39.60°N, 45.15°EKhachik — 39.60°N, 45.15°EGnishik — 39.95°N, 44.94°EEbitiem — 71.82°N, 127.64°E

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The named rock units Ichthyolaria 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.

Ichthyolaria and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Ichthyolaria and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

176 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Ichthyolaria, 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

7 references

Each of the 27 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 content1

Picture of Ichthyolaria

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ichthyolaria 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 itIchthyolariidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.