Salenia anthophora
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SaleniaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Salenioida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Salenioida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Salenioida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Salenia anthophora 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Salenia anthophora 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.
Salenia anthophora and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Salenia anthophora and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
169 taxa- Gauthieria pseudoradiata5 sites
- Salenia belgica4 sites
- Amphiura plana2 sites
- Applinocrinus cretaceus2 sites
- Cardiaster granulosus2 sites
- Chomataster acules2 sites
- Crateraster reticulatus2 sites
- Cyclaster2 sites
- Echinocorys2 sites
- Lophidiaster pygmaeus2 sites
- Ophiocoma senonensis2 sites
- Ophioderma substriatum2 sites
- Ophiomusium granulosum2 sites
- Ophiomyxa rhipidata2 sites
- Ophioscolex cretaceus2 sites
- Ophiosmilax alternatus2 sites
- Salenidia bonissenti2 sites
- Salenidia schlueteri2 sites
- Temnocidaris baylei2 sites
- Trichaster ornatus2 sites
- Amphorometra conoidea1 site
- Amphorometra rugiana1 site
- Aphrocallistes alveolites1 site
- Aspidochirotida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Salenia anthophora, 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
4 references- Salenioid echinoids from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of Belgium and The Netherlands3
- The echinoderms of the Rügen White Chalk (Maastrichtian, Germany)1
- Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 4: Echinoids1
- All Change at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary? Echinoids from the Maastrichtian and Danian of the Mangyshlak Peninsula, Kazakhstan1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Salenia anthophora was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Salenia anthophora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSalenia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muller 1847