Sinosura

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AplocominaePBDB
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 120 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 46 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 19 of 46 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 10 of 46 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 12 of 46 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 46 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 46 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 46 occurrences202–198 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences198–193 Mya — about 1 occurrence193–188 Mya — about 4 occurrences188–184 Mya — about 5 occurrences184–179 Mya — about 7 occurrences179–174 Mya — about 2 occurrences174–170 Mya — about 4 occurrences170–165 Mya — about 3 occurrences165–161 Mya — about 4 occurrences161–156 Mya — about 7 occurrences156–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–142 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence192.9 Mya72.2 Mya202 Mya63 Mya

46 occurrences of Sinosura 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

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

12 formations

Neuburger Bank-Kalken — 47.67°N, 15.58°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°EEffinger Schichten — 47.26°N, 7.52°ERenggeri-Ton — 46.83°N, 5.97°ERenggeri-Ton — 45.95°N, 5.55°EHumeralis Schichten — 47.47°N, 7.37°EPosidonienschiefer — 48.63°N, 9.54°EMessancy — 49.60°N, 5.73°ECharmouth Mudstone — 52.33°N, 1.18°WMiddle Lias — 52.02°N, 1.71°WRenggeri-Ton — 47.25°N, 7.02°EBridport Sand — 50.71°N, 2.76°WAhlen — 51.95°N, 7.98°E

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The named rock units Sinosura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sinosura and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Sinosura and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

365 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Sinosura, 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

20 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. 8 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Sinosura 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 itAplocominae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hess 1964