Salenia tumidula
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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 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Salenia tumidula on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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- Paleocene100%
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
1 formation
- Vincentown Formation · Rancocas Group6
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The named rock units Salenia tumidula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Salenia tumidula and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Salenia tumidula and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
157 taxa- Holaster cinctus4 sites
- Cidaris splendens3 sites
- Flabellum mortoni3 sites
- Gauthieria speciosa3 sites
- Hemiaster parastatus3 sites
- Polorthus tibialis3 sites
- Rhopostoma crucifer3 sites
- Schizaster (Linthia) tumidulus3 sites
- Arca2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Cavoscala annulata2 sites
- Coscinopleura2 sites
- Cucullaea2 sites
- Echinopsis diatreta2 sites
- Graphularia2 sites
- Gryphaeostrea vomer2 sites
- Hemiaster2 sites
- Hemiaster stella2 sites
- Kummelia2 sites
- Lamna2 sites
- Panopea2 sites
- Pitar (Pitar) ovatus2 sites
- Pycnodonte2 sites
- Pyropsis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Salenia tumidula, 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- Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States3
- A large longirostrine crocodylian from the Paleocene Vincentown Formation in Burlington County, New Jersey and associated invertebrate fauna1
- Macrofossils from the Vincentown Formation (Paleocene) of New Jersey1
- Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary1
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
Media content0
No picture of Salenia tumidula 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 Salenia tumidula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Salenia tumidula 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 itSalenia through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clark 1801