Lunularia

Lunularia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LunulariidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 21 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 9 of 21 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 21 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 21 occurrencesMiocene67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences56 Mya15.98 Mya67 Mya11 Mya

21 occurrences of Lunularia on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

21 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

9 formations

Moodys Branch — 32.32°N, 90.16°WRed Bluff — 30.68°N, 88.68°WRed Bluff — 32.32°N, 90.89°WMarianna Limestone — 31.52°N, 87.33°WMarianna Limestone — 31.15°N, 87.15°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WSantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.25°WByram Marl — 31.69°N, 88.66°WAquia — 40.35°N, 74.25°WClaiborne Sand — 31.53°N, 87.50°WBarnwell Sand — 33.56°N, 81.72°W

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The named rock units Lunularia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lunularia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Lunularia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

398 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Lunularia, 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

6 references

Each of the 21 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 Lunularia

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

No 3D scan of Lunularia 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 itLunulariidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Busk 1884