Monopleura

No picture of Monopleura was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Monopleura, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MonopleuridaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hippuritida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hippuritida

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 31 of 52 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 21 of 52 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 52 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 2 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 4 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 2 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 3 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 3 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 4 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 2 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 4 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences132.6 Mya72.2 Mya138 Mya65 Mya

52 occurrences of Monopleura 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

52 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

15 formations

El Abra — 21.32°N, 99.13°WMural Limestone — 31.38°N, 109.75°WMural Limestone — 31.33°N, 109.10°WMagyaregregy Conglomerate — 46.17°N, 18.25°ECollades de Basturs — 42.17°N, 0.90°EUrgonien blanc — 46.40°N, 5.80°EMergel and Kalk Zone — 47.02°N, 6.92°EAnacacho Limestone — 29.19°N, 100.30°WHidasivölgy Marl — 46.20°N, 18.35°EVillarroya — 40.52°N, 0.17°ECalcaires récifaux supérieurs — 38.81°N, 9.47°WMarno-calcaires à Heteraster oblongus — 38.85°N, 9.33°WVallcarga — 42.03°N, 0.83°EArén — 42.03°N, 0.83°EMural — 30.57°N, 111.48°WItxina — 43.00°N, 2.77°W

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The named rock units Monopleura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Monopleura and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

618 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Monopleura, 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

25 references

Each of the 52 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. 13 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 Monopleura was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Monopleura, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Monopleura 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 itMonopleuridae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matheron 1842