Ovatathyris ovata
No picture of Ovatathyris ovata 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 Ovatathyris ovata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OvatathyrisPBDB
- 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 most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ovatathyris ovata 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Ovatathyris ovata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ovatathyris ovata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ovatathyris ovata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Boubeithyris diploplicata2 sites
- Burrirhynchia devoniana1 site
- Chenendopora fungiformis1 site
- Chenendopora michelinii1 site
- Corynella rugosa1 site
- Corynella socialis1 site
- Cyclothyris punfieldensis1 site
- Dereta pectita1 site
- Doryderma benetti1 site
- Doryderma dichotomum1 site
- Elasmostoma consobrinum1 site
- Elasmostoma normanianum1 site
- Glaessnerella kennedyi1 site
- Glaessnerella nodulosa1 site
- Goniodromites cenomanensis1 site
- Grasirhynchia grasiana1 site
- Hallirhoa agariciformis1 site
- Hallirhoa costata1 site
- Hallirhoa costata brevicostata1 site
- Hallirhoa costata elevata1 site
- Holodictyon capitatum1 site
- Jerea reticulata1 site
- Jerea websteri1 site
- Kalpinella pateraeformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ovatathyris ovata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ovatathyris ovata 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 Ovatathyris ovata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ovatathyris ovata 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 itOvatathyris through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1812)