Somalithyris subcircularis
No picture of Somalithyris subcircularis 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 Somalithyris subcircularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SomalithyrisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Postepithyrididae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Postepithyrididae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Postepithyrididae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 6.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 161.5 Mya and 154.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Somalithyris subcircularis on record, most of them in the Late 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
1 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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 Somalithyris subcircularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Somalithyris subcircularis and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Somalithyris subcircularis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Glyphisaria divergens1 site
- Habrobrochus amygdaloideus1 site
- Kutchirhynchia gregoryi1 site
- Mycerosia amygdaliformis1 site
- Somalirhynchia africana1 site
- Somalirhynchia arabica1 site
- Somalirhynchia somalica1 site
- Somalithyris elliptica1 site
- Somalithyris ovata1 site
- Somalithyris parva1 site
- Somalithyris triangulata1 site
- Torquirhynchia parva1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Somalithyris subcircularis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
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No picture of Somalithyris subcircularis 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 Somalithyris subcircularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Somalithyris subcircularis 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 itSomalithyris through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1989