Smittina marsupium
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SmittinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.9 Mya to 1.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 340 ka.
5 occurrences of Smittina marsupium on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
5 occurrences- Oligocene8%
- Miocene32%
- Pliocene40%
- Pleistocene20%
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
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The named rock units Smittina marsupium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Smittina marsupium and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Smittina marsupium and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
128 taxa- Microporella ciliata4 sites
- Arachnopusia unicornis3 sites
- Cellaria immersa3 sites
- Chaperia multifida3 sites
- Chaperia rubida3 sites
- Crassimarginatella sileni3 sites
- Crepidacantha poissonii crinispina3 sites
- Escharoides angela3 sites
- Hippomenella bituberosa3 sites
- Hippothoa hyalina3 sites
- Macropora grandis3 sites
- Micropora coriacea3 sites
- Odontionella cyclops3 sites
- Petraliella firmata3 sites
- Schizomavella cinctipora3 sites
- Amphiblestrum trifolium2 sites
- Calloporina diadema2 sites
- Chaperia acanthina2 sites
- Chiastosella watersi2 sites
- Electra ongleyi2 sites
- Ellisina incrustans2 sites
- Escharina waiparaensis2 sites
- Exochella conjuncta2 sites
- Exochella jellyae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Smittina marsupium, 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
2 references- The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand4
- Fossil cheilostomatous polyzoa from south-west Victoria1
Each of the 5 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 Smittina marsupium 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 Smittina marsupium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Smittina marsupium 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.
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What may have been alongside itSmittina through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (MacGillivray 1869)