Loriolithyris

Loriolithyris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SellithyridinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Sellithyrididae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Sellithyrididae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Sellithyrididae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 38 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 38 of 38 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous144–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 1 occurrence139–137 Mya — about 2 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 3 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 4 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 4 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 4 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 4 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–130 Mya — about 1 occurrence130–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–128 Mya — about 1 occurrence128–127 Mya — about 1 occurrence127–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–125 Mya — about 1 occurrence125–124 Mya — about 1 occurrence124–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–122 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–121 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137.05 Mya119.57 Mya143.7 Mya112.6 Mya

38 occurrences of Loriolithyris on record, most of them in the Early 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

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

7 formations

Zone de Pierre jaune — 47.05°N, 7.08°EMergel and Kalk Zone — 47.02°N, 6.92°EMarbre Batard — 47.02°N, 6.92°ECouche de Villers — 47.02°N, 6.92°EArgiles de Ghriss — 35.25°N, 0.15°ETamanar — 31.40°N, 9.68°WAlikper — 39.60°N, 54.50°E

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The named rock units Loriolithyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Loriolithyris and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Loriolithyris and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

223 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Loriolithyris, 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

10 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. 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 Loriolithyris

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

No 3D scan of Loriolithyris 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 itSellithyridinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Middlemiss 1968