Linthia sudanensis

Linthia sudanensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LinthiaPBDB
Diet
deposit feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Spatangoida
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Spatangoida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Spatangoida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Spatangoida

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 12 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 9 of 12 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 12 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 12 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66 Mya56 Mya85 Mya33 Mya

12 occurrences of Linthia sudanensis 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

12 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

4 formations

Teberemt — 16.67°N, 0.50°ETeberemt — 17.40°N, 0.43°ETeberemt — 19.22°N, 0.30°ETeberemt — 17.40°N, 0.50°ETichet, Ménaka, Teberemt — 19.62°N, 0.20°EMénaka — 16.75°N, 2.50°ETeberemt, Tamaguélelt, Continental Terminal — 16.80°N, 0.97°E

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The named rock units Linthia sudanensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Linthia sudanensis and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Linthia sudanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

67 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Linthia sudanensis, 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 12 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 Linthia sudanensis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itLinthia through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bather 1904)