Sarcinella

No picture of Sarcinella 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 Sarcinella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SerpulimorphaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Serpulimorpha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Serpulimorpha
Motility
stationary, epibiontPBDB, for Serpulimorpha
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Polychaeta
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Serpulimorpha

Time the record covers

At least 98 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 15 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 12 of 15 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 15 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 15 occurrences177–173 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences173–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence139–135 Mya — about 1 occurrence135–132 Mya — about 2 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 4 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 3 occurrences117–113 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences113–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences170.9 Mya72.2 Mya177 Mya64 Mya

15 occurrences of Sarcinella 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

15 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

6 formations

Atherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WAtherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WChachao — 35.75°S, 69.53°WChachao — 35.83°S, 69.92°WSchrattenkalk — 47.43°N, 10.23°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.13°N, 6.77°EFormación Quebrada Marquesa — 30.30°S, 71.16°WNantoco — 28.13°S, 70.52°W

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The named rock units Sarcinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sarcinella and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

309 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Sarcinella, 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

9 references

Each of the 15 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 Sarcinella 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 Sarcinella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sarcinella 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 itSerpulimorpha through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.