Longitubus

Longitubus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SerpulimorphaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Serpulimorpha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Serpulimorpha
Motility
stationary, epibiontPBDB, for Serpulimorpha
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Polychaeta
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Serpulimorpha

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 56 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 23 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 22 of 23 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 23 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 23 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 5 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 5 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 5 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93.9 Mya59.24 Mya101.4 Mya55.1 Mya

23 occurrences of Longitubus on record, most of them in the Late 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

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

Prairie Bluff — 33.93°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.73°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 85.92°WProvidence — 31.97°N, 86.00°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WOwl Creek — 34.88°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WOwl Creek — 34.63°N, 88.84°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WMarshalltown — 39.78°N, 75.44°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WNavesink — 40.31°N, 74.22°WMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°WSevern — 38.91°N, 76.85°WMount Laurel — 40.26°N, 74.27°W

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The named rock units Longitubus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Longitubus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Longitubus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

564 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Longitubus, 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 content1

Picture of Longitubus

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

No 3D scan of Longitubus 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 itSerpulimorpha through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.