Sigsbeia lunaris
No picture of Sigsbeia lunaris 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 Sigsbeia lunaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SigsbeiaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Time the record covers
At least 9.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 174.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 168.6 Mya.
7 occurrences of Sigsbeia lunaris on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
7 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
- Middle Lias Formation · Lias Group1
- Bridport Sand Formation1
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The named rock units Sigsbeia lunaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sigsbeia lunaris and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Sigsbeia lunaris and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Sinosura brodiei7 sites
- Mesophiomusium geisingense5 sites
- Ophiarachna liasica5 sites
- Ophiura astonensis5 sites
- Mesophiomusium scabrum4 sites
- Ophiacantha toarcensis4 sites
- Ophiocten seeweni4 sites
- Ophiopetra oertlii4 sites
- Sinosura schneideri4 sites
- Ophiacantha dorecki3 sites
- Ophiopholis trispinosa3 sites
- Ophiotrapezium spinulosum3 sites
- Palaeocoma milleri3 sites
- Praetetracrinus inornatus2 sites
- Praetetracrinus kutscheri2 sites
- Shroshaecrinus quedlinburgensis2 sites
- Amaltheus1 site
- Amaltheus margaritatus1 site
- Ammobaculites1 site
- Androgynoceras1 site
- Astacolus1 site
- Bairdia1 site
- Balanocrinus subsulcatus1 site
- Comptoniaster vrinensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Sigsbeia lunaris, 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- Echinodermata aus dem Ober-Toarcium und Aalenium Deutschlands II: Ophiuroidea4
- Ophiuroid remains from the Toarcian of Sainte-Verge (Deux-Sevres, France): paleobiological perspectives1
- Die Ophiuren des englischen Jura1
- Mikropaläontologische Untersuchungen an Ophiuren II. Die Ophiuren aus dem Lias (Pliensbachien-Toarcien) von Seewen (Kt. Solothurn)1
Each of the 7 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 Sigsbeia lunaris 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 Sigsbeia lunaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sigsbeia lunaris 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSigsbeia through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hess 1962)