Praelongithyris

Praelongithyris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RectithyridinaePBDB
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 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 46 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 45 of 46 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 46 occurrencesLate Cretaceous144–142 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 1 occurrence141–139 Mya — about 1 occurrence139–137 Mya — about 2 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 1 occurrence136–134 Mya — about 1 occurrence134–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–130 Mya — about 1 occurrence130–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–127 Mya — about 1 occurrence127–125 Mya — about 1 occurrence125–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 4 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 5 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 4 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 4 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 4 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137.05 Mya100.5 Mya144 Mya93 Mya

46 occurrences of Praelongithyris 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

46 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

11 formations

Hythe — 51.27°N, 0.52°EHythe — 51.07°N, 1.08°EHythe — 51.29°N, 0.30°EHils Conglomerate — 52.00°N, 10.00°EMzinene — 27.86°S, 32.33°EFerruginous Sands — 50.63°N, 1.17°WSandgate — 51.23°N, 0.58°WSandgate — 51.67°N, 1.58°WWoburn Sand — 52.00°N, 0.77°WGrès verts helvétiques — 46.13°N, 6.78°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.95°N, 6.31°EPalnatokes Bjerg — 74.55°N, 19.33°WOlivetska Hora — 49.58°N, 18.12°EBargate Beds — 51.21°N, 0.63°WLangshan — 31.40°N, 89.01°E

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The named rock units Praelongithyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Praelongithyris and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

428 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Praelongithyris, 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

16 references

Each of the 46 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. 4 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 content1

Picture of Praelongithyris

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

No 3D scan of Praelongithyris 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 itRectithyridinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Middlemiss 1959