Lunulitidae

No picture of Lunulitidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lunulitidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LunulitoideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 95 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 234 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 72 of 234 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 234 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 80 of 234 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 14 of 234 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 64 of 234 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 234 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 234 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 31 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 37 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 46 occurrences39–35 Mya — about 26 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 6 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 6 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 10 occurrences20–16 Mya — about 12 occurrences16–12 Mya — about 34 occurrences12–8.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.0–4.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.2–368 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences100.5 Mya5.333 Mya115 Mya368 ka

234 occurrences of Lunulitidae 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

234 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

32 formations

Cook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WMoodys Branch — 31.89°N, 88.39°WMoodys Branch — 31.50°N, 87.80°WMoodys Branch — 32.32°N, 90.16°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 1.00°S, 48.00°WPirabas — 1.23°S, 47.40°WPirabas — 0.82°S, 46.96°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 2.58°S, 43.38°WStone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WCrystal River Limestone — 30.77°N, 85.23°WCrystal River Limestone — 29.65°N, 82.61°WCrystal River Limestone — 29.19°N, 82.14°WCrystal River Limestone — 29.29°N, 82.75°WCrystal River Limestone — 28.71°N, 82.57°WKasseler Meeressand — 51.45°N, 9.52°EKasseler Meeressand — 51.35°N, 9.38°EKasseler Meeressand — 50.43°N, 9.55°EKasseler Meeressand — 51.27°N, 9.63°EDanish White Chalk — 57.03°N, 9.93°EWeches — 31.76°N, 93.09°WWeches — 30.67°N, 96.37°WCrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCrockett — 30.67°N, 96.37°WBarton Clay — 51.02°N, 1.32°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBarton Beds — 50.78°N, 1.73°WBarton Beds — 50.85°N, 1.78°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WRed Bluff — 30.68°N, 88.68°WRed Bluff — 32.32°N, 90.89°WByram Marl — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram Marl — 31.69°N, 88.66°WByram Marl — 32.32°N, 90.88°WMcBean — 33.25°N, 81.93°WMcBean — 33.23°N, 81.82°WClaiborne Sand — 31.53°N, 87.50°WKosciusko — 32.04°N, 88.73°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EWilliston Limestone — 29.77°N, 82.87°WCrystal River — 30.77°N, 85.23°WPachuta Marl — 31.14°N, 87.94°WBumpnose — 30.77°N, 85.23°WLondon Clay — 51.73°N, 0.48°EYazoo — 31.66°N, 92.90°W

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The named rock units Lunulitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 119 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lunulitidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Lunulitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,548 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 167 sites for Lunulitidae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

28 references

Each of the 234 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. 16 further references are not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Lunulitidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lunulitidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Lunulitidae 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 itLunulitoidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lagaaij 1952